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[haptalaon]

Wretched, wretched Wordpress has changed from an old-school blogging platform to a "drag and drop artsy blocks" platform. This makes it easier and more intuitive to make beautiful modern-looking internet sites, but I find both making and reading those really inaccessible. Compared to sites like Dreamwidth, and those classic 90s websites with a site map and a side bar and all that. Sites where you can see the scaffolding. I can feel my task becoming more difficult, due paradoxically to these glossy tricks which are supposed to make it easier

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[ilthit]

What did they do now? Is this about a theme or the site?

I hated it when they switched to that light blue frame and keep pushing you back to it instead of letting you stay in the WP Admin view; I think if you host your own site you can still stick to just the admin view, though. That still seems somewhat unchanged though.

I still remember when Evernote was a nice note-taking platform... then they made it pale green and search-based instead of tree-based and I haven't wanted to use it since.

[haptalaon]

The site itself. You now drag and drop "blocks" into the area where you write your post.

Blocks are like, an image block or a text block or a header block, just a formalisation of what you'd do with html but ughhhh it means I have to reformat everything for the website.

Evernote made such an mistake :/ all note taking programs are about how easily the user understands their data, and so changing the layout in this way is clearly destructive. Ugh.

[ilthit]

I'm so sorry, that sucks.

I used to use scrivener for note taking in university (yes I paid for it) but I don't use it anymore because my main PC is a Linux. All you really need is a tree and all files accessible from one view. Maybe I should try to code something like that myself.

[haptalaon]

I've been using cherrytree on Linux for a few years, and like it; it has a visible tree, and can be exported to a couple of formats, including html.

[ilthit]

I've only just installed it this morning but so far it looks perfect!! I hope I'll be able to change the text to black on white and larger by default, but if that works out it's... kinda exactly what I wanted. I've been trying to find a Scrivener alternative for Linux but this is the first that has the most important feature aka simple visible tree-format. <3