I wholeheartedly agree with this.

I have worked on Magento 2 stores (even got their training, which was atrocious!), and... it was awful. It would take a LOT of money to get me to touch it ever again.

It eats error messages, the logging is awful, it's unbelievably slow uncached (turning off the config cache used to make things take minutes to load), the plugin ecosystem is full of badly written messes that grovel around in the internals of Magento 2 and break built-in features so that you then have to go and fix those yourself later, and it's almost impossible to make a nontrivial store without maintaining your own bugfixes to several core packages.

edit: oh, and you couldn't actually upload images because it processed them all in-request using gd or imagemagick and adding more than about three would make the requests time out.

Run, don't walk.

I also dislike Magento, I switched to WooCommerce and I'm really satisfied with it, no issues.

This was the issue that forced me to switch: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/21201

Summary: A brand new installation didn't work even though the server passed the requirements.

Their response was that:

> The GitHub issue tracker is intended for Magento Core technical issues only. Please refer to the Community Forums.

And I was not crazy, even after the issue was closed others reported same problems:

> I have exact same issue. Already wasted one whole days , then saw this post.

> I have the same issue. Wasted whole day on it, did fresh install twice. Then came to this from another report that was closed.

> have the same exact issue, first use of Magento. searching for a solution without luck.

So, multiple people had problems fresh installing Magento on a new server, Magento installer says installation is successful and all requirements are met, then it proudly redirects you to your broken home page.

I did community work on Magento when it was about to blow up and even then it was kinda obvious that it was over-engineered, slow af and not suited for the shared hosting landscape (this was before it was branded as an "enterprise" solution). I'm surprised that anyone would recommend Magento to a new business in 2021.

The criticism is a bit over the top. I had to do some paid work on Magento extensions for a pre-existing customer installation for a while, and while it was a slow, bloated system unusable without throwing in a whole lot of extra cache systems, which also had its share of internationalization issues back then in v1, it was comparatively easy to find my way around the source even without being an actual PHP programmer or prior knowledge of Magento.

(Disclaimer: This was Magento 1. Haven't looked at Magento 2)

Still wouldn't recommend it for actually setting up a shop, though.

Did Magento development for 2-years. The company I used to work for decided to go all-in and build a SaaS product on top of Magento to compete with Shopify. Always thought it was a stupid idea.

That said, this website got a facelift because I remember googling "fuck magento" 6-years ago and this URL was the first match. Obviously I wasn't the only one who hated it.

Pretty surprised something like this would make it on the front page of HN. Oh well.

Built with WordPress, oh the irony. WooCommerce should sponsor this page.