Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
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Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
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Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#2I for one welcome this change. Hopefully they are successful and can fix the issues that have plagued the software for so long.
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#3I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought.
I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some important features).
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#4I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
I have been helping with the fork, that is the plan. First thing we have to stabilize it and fix the bugs. We are refactoring a paypal module right now that has buttons that are not connecting to anything. It calls methods that do not exist. It was something that someone made to essentially try to get over on people.
Once we get things stabilized we are going to figure out the best way to rewrite things. That is why we are trying to be very community focused. We need to see the pain points of merchants, what they want, what would make them succeed.
We are scrubbing the whole platform for legacy code and updating what we can while maintaining compatibility with the current modules and themes. Then we are really going to break this down and develop something more awesome than awesome.
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#5I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
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Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#6I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
If you're not tied to PHP, check out Spree[1] or its fork Solidus[2].
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#7I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
If you're not tied to PHP, check out Spree[1] or its fork Solidus[2]. [1] https://spreecommerce.com/ [2] http://solidus.io/
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Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#8This is great news. I don't know if anyone has been keeping up, but PrestaShop is being run into the ground. Check out the glassdoor reviews lately, https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/PrestaShop-Reviews-E884065... The management seems like world class screw ups.
Hopefully this will get off the ground, I signed up.
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#9I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
Curious: what do you find missing from WooCommerce?
Re: Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork
#10I had high hopes for PrestaShop and hope this leads to the improvements the platform needs. It's so close to being great but it was not particularly stable and their API is a terrible mess of an afterthought. I hope they can turn this into a stable and powerful platform that I can recommend as a self-hosted solution over Magento (too bloated) and WooCommerce (easy to use, but tied to Wordpress and missing some import…
Urgh. It has been several years now since I last had to deal with Magento, and nothing I've seen over the years suggests it has got any better.
At the time, the final product was arguably a case of code that is far too split up, resulting in quite some system penalties. I get the advantage of developing that way, but I wonder if they'd have been served better by somehow writing stuff to combine libraries together for the final releases product.
Even loading the landing page on a default website used to require loading hundreds of PHP scripts. I was absolutely gobsmacked the metrics I was getting out of APC.