Exclusive Preview: Introducing new Wix Editor features

@aviyas Are you a Wix Partner or are you on the Wix team? Your badge says partner so just want to clarify. I do know about the shape dividers being created, I had several meetings with that team actually.

In regards to sections/classic builder, honestly, I don’t see classic lasting much longer if the site overall is not responsive. Again we do not have a tablet view and there is no automatic switching between views. I highly doubt we will ever see full responsiveness as we have with Editor X but at minimum, if they switched views after changing browser size, that would be a huge improvement. Also being able to set the max-width of a section/entire site would be great. If someone zooms out or has a huge monitor, we don’t want our visitors looking at incredibly small text or stretched-out images. Most modern sites stop stretching out at 2560px. Look at apple as an example.

The other serious issue is with Wix Apps. The apps are incredibly limited by default and are missing much-needed features to compete with other e-commerce, booking, and LMS platforms. I actually like to compare Wix to Apple because you both are similar in terms of being a walled garden. While there is a benefit to this, there are negatives as well. Your app marketplace is pretty empty/filled with half-baked apps because developers just can’t do as much as they can on a platform like WordPress or Shopify and site developers have no access to the CSS or HTML of a site.

When you combine both problems of the editor not being responsive enough with apps that can’t be edited or have limited design and feature functionality it’s the perfect storm to keep larger organizations away. Wix has a huge battle to face when it comes to public opinion. If you ask any e-commerce developer, the general consensus is to avoid Wix and use WooCommerce or Shopify. While I don’t believe this is always the case, the fact is you don’t see any major online store using Wix and it’s not that they are completely custom developing their site, they are just using other platforms with more features and control.