Cool video! Thank you to all involved for your hard work on this groundbreaking new version. Now that it's out in the wild and we've passed the point of no return, I hope it goes as smoothly as possible...

It’s amazing to see this out there in the wild after years of hard work. I consider myself incredibly lucky to work with the team that makes WordPress, and Gutenberg is an expression of their empathy, talent, vision, and persistence.

As a core contributing developer of WordPress, I am super excited about Gutenberg. It's an audacious project built on top of JavaScript/React.js. This cutting edge editing experience is going to make building content with WordPress an excellent experience (if not now then in a year or so from now).

Pros:

Gutenberg: The new JS based editing experience 👌

Cons:

Content migrations from the classic editor is going to be tough but fruitful.

Gutenberg is the most basic "page builder" you can find on the market right now. You can't do half of the stuff featured on the video properly. For example, you cannot even set background images to rows yet alone adjusting column widths based on screen size. People are going to use it as "post" layouts inside their blog, and then complain about the extra css and js files slowing their site 😉

I haven't used Wordpress for a while, but might just install this to see what the hype is all about.

This is what could get me to use Wordpress again.

Time to start a block party.

When I started with WP it made me feel like publishing was for everyone, even me- I got to publish, and the images were aligned, posts neatly organised etc. Gutenberg worried me a great deal, and I started out not liking the idea. I thought it would make all the mistakes of adding complexity and making me struggle. I tried the Gutenberg editor very early on and after a couple of updates, I have found that it makes me feel like I felt when I started using WP. That is huge for me. I however hope that all the #WPDrama is sorted out, and that the all voices in the community feel listened to.

Pros:

Quicker layout of pages

Cons:

A bit of effort to move to 5.0. Still some accessibility issues. Would have preferred Vue

Gutemberg is great, but it's obviously build by people with a lot of technical skills but a serious lack of writing experiences. The Gutemberg team does not listen to their user's concerns, that is the only explanation I have to justify the fact that it's not possible to justify text which is the default standard for the whole journalism industry.

This the futuristic and expected this from wordpress team. Amazing!

I am just commenting here to record my type-print to the beginning of this new history that is going to be re-written for the WordPress after 5.0 . Congratulations Team @Wordpress

An amazing work guys. I'm already using it! :)

Like Bebo from Arrowverse and Legends of Tomorrow?

I've been with wordpress before it was wordpress, and continue to ask others to sign up. However, the latest update, still gives me the feeling that it is not intuitive to use... wrote about it on medium.com for a reason, to get the point across... https://medium.com/@jpm/like-the...

That's awesome!

A step in the right direction. Great job!

I've been using wordpress since 2012. Apparently I've been using the classic editor for quite a long time. So switching between the new gutenberg view is going to confuse users like me for a while. Yet I feel its worth switching

I'm curious about how the existing plugins would support the same

Pros:

Blocks are going to change the way wordpress was being used

Cons:

Switching from classic editor

Wow, we are literally all at ground zero of the future of the internet. [hype] WordPress was already the most open platform to build on, but with this new blocks concept, you can now build like never before. Blocks are about making everything easier to use Blocks are about making WordPress a tool for everyone Blocks are about opening doors to a new generation of users Blocks are about the future... [/hype] For realz, this new release is about "bringing sexy back" to WordPress. Bravo to WordPress's commitment to making the internet easier to build on. It's kinda hard to "Democratize Publishing" if the tools exclude non-techies ;-). Blocks have the potential to change that.

i've been using it for my new site and it's great

Pros:

so much easier to make a page and post

Cons:

i've heard people say it's hard to migrate from the old editor

OwO