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Updated 4 weeks ago

Webstudio: Honest Feedback on Production Readiness

SSteve Suderman
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I would love some honest feedback on whether Webstudio is production ready. Are any of you running an agency with it? I am on the pro plan and building my first site. I am proficient with Webflow. I have been watching Webstudio for the past year or so and I am impressed with what has been accomplished. but now with spending a few hours, I am surprised at some buggy UI things, some of the help requests I see in this thread, and just worried in general about switch from Webflow. I spent 45 min trying to figure out how to style HTML elements, like headings, withing the builder. Finally figured out you need to use custom code to do that. I don't see an option to clean up unused CSS.
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MMilan Boisgard | Uncode School
Hey! I'm running Webstudio in production and I'm spending a lot of time in Webstudio. Yes, it’s 's not perfect but the team is working a lot to improve the builder everyday. I was in Webflow 2 years ago (and I trained a lot of people on that tool...).

What do you need to style your heading? How I can help you 🙂
SSteve Suderman
Hey, I appreciate your offer to help. With any new tool there is going to be a learning curve. I am fairly confident I will be able to build with Webstudio, and get used to some of the little things that seem off right now. I am even willing to file bug reports and help improve things. I just want to make sure I am not too early to this. I don't want to waste my time if this is mostly for hobbyists right now.
MMilan Boisgard | Uncode School
You've right! One year ago it was for hobbyst. Right now, I'm thinking is for pro!

You should try with a CMS and the binding, it’s 's really really powerful (I hate the Webflow CMS experience).

don't hesitate to check the roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/webstudio-is/projects/11

Feel free to ask some help on the community. Everyone wants to become better on Webstudio and the core Team is really helpful.

But yes, we need more marketing to have more visibility (Webflow spend a lot of money on that) 😅
MMilan Boisgard | Uncode School
for sure you don't loose your time! And if you come from Webflow the learning curse is easy 😉
JJohn Siciliano
I would love some honest feedback on whether Webstudio is production ready.
It's production-grade indeed.

I am surprised at some buggy UI things
What specifically did you find buggy?

Some of the help requests I see in this thread
May not be a good indicator 🙂 There are users from all experience levels here.

trying to figure out how to style HTML elements, like headings
I use Tokens and apply my h2 token to every heading 2 for example. Of course you can also use custom CSS but that's not always ideal. I recall the team discussing too many drawbacks of global html element styles but I could be wrong.
SSteve Suderman
Hey @John Siciliano I am recording video as I go so I can have a record of what I am running into. I will go into more details when I have more time. This site is time sensitive.
-- But case in point, right now I can't seem to publish. When I click publish it seems to attempt for about a minute. But when i go to the page, nothing has changed. Even adding new pages does not show up. Is there a server issue right now?
SSteve Suderman
Here is what is showing up on the page
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JJohn Siciliano
Video would help! Publishing takes about 45 seconds. A JavaScript application is getting built and deployed to 320 servers.

There aren't publishing issues. Can you share the builder link so I can see?
SSteve Suderman
https://p-db4d5ec3-73a0-4422-8160-331e9b14e1b1.apps.webstudio.is/?authToken=2559e39a-c612-4a0a-ba66-395d17a7d76e&mode=preview
SSteve Suderman
sorry, I know what going on.... hold on a sec....
SSteve Suderman
So here's the deal. I am on Fedora Linux. I can't use webstudio with Chrome because for some reason the styles panel on the right will not scroll. Every now and then it will, but then it stops again. I can't figure out what makes it work and not work. But it's unusable. So I was using Vivaldi and running into an issue it has on linux. I guess I will try Edge or Brave next.
SSteve Suderman
I am guessing this is specific to Chrome and Linux --- though I have not had issues with other websites, or Webflow.
JJohn Siciliano
Okay two things.

  1. in your screenshot there's a red icon meaning you're offline.. so changes aren't saving. This could be due to a local network issue or opening in multiple tabs
  1. Got it. I see someone reported this today here. I'm going to create an official issue and paste it back here so you can track it https://discord.com/channels/955905230107738152/1284521003061350564
SSteve Suderman
@John Siciliano Thanks. Adding a bg colour for now is an easy work around.
OOleg Isonen
That issue for scroling was reported about scrolling of the canvas when body doesn't have any background color defined and that apparently happens on windows chrome.

So this seems new, would love to see a video of that

the styles panel on the right will not scroll.
OOleg Isonen
As a reference point would be great to see if it works fine on chrome on Linux.
ppaso_sb
Hi @Steve Suderman , Webstudio needs a bit of familiarisation. Once you've got that behind you, it's worth it. But you will know this from other tools as well. Especially when it comes to the CMS part, it really is a huge upgrade compared to Webflow. I myself also come from Webflow and now realise all customer projects in Webstudio, no longer in Webflow. The possibilities are greater, the results better.
LLuis
Hi @Steve Suderman, I'm coming from WordPress and migrated my client's sites and mine to Webstudio. I love the flexibility of Webstudio, especially after the CMS launch (which is insanely powerful). I'm not going to lie, it was a big learning curve, but it was worth it. This platform has great potential, and I sincerely hope it is not abandoned.
SSteve Suderman
Thanks for your thoughts @Luis and @paso_sb
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