This overweight web application that pretends to be a CMS is anything but useful. I will try to go into more details down the road, but we will start off with the fact that the install initial install of Sitecore Foundry is around 25,000 files and weighing in at nearly 600MB while using 6 databases. And all you get is a system that displays "Welcome to Sitecore". You have no CMS. You have to build it, you have to create a series of Items, Layouts, Renderings, and Sub-Layouts before you can start to see anything that resemebles a CMS.
Sitecore doesn't handle anything either, forms have to be custom coded. Any thing besides displaying basic test has to be custom coded.
Yes this is a Rant, hopefully future post will be more insightful, but for right now I needed to vent.
Hi, I saw your post. I'm sorry you're having a tough time. Email me at spowell at reveregroup.com and we can help your organization. We've done the largest SC implementation in North America (20,000 sites) without Foundry.
ReplyDeleteWe're also having problems with Foundry. Sometimes words show up in Danish in the page tree even though English is chosen as the default language. The local identity banner shows up on some pages and not others. Images show up for the public but not members of the extranet. Lots of bugs for the business user. Very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteSitecore is not a CMS. Sitecore is only some kind of expensive hard to use framework....
ReplyDeleteI'm now 2 year's a super admin in sitecore and i have to agree : sitecore sucks big time. Worst experience with this so called CMS system. thrust me: you don't want to go there ...
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. We have sites on a few different CMS systems and our problems and support tickets for Sitecore are 100X more than the others. I can't figure out how the bloated excuse of CMS ever got elevated to an enterprise solution. I want to throw my computer against the wall every time I have to work in it.
ReplyDeleteIt's so counter intuitive and abstract... it really sucks.
ReplyDeleteYou can't help but think that the makers of Sitecore deliberately created this convoluted and overly complicated and hard to understand system so as to make themselves indispensable. I mean, it's completely impossible to use this piece of garbage without attending one of their training programs for which they charge you thousands of dollars. Software is supposed to help you solve problems, not be the problem.
ReplyDeleteYes to all of this. Bloated and overly complicated. I worked on sitecore projects for two years and it was a total pain in the ass - and I have 18 years of development experience. Our company team brought in sitecore consultants for a weeklong training session. Our development team is highly skilled. We all failed the test at the end of the training session. During my 2 years of working with sitecore, we built websites for our clients with cms functionality for them, but they never used the cms part! If they wanted something changed, they would just ask us to do it. And don't get me started on deploying these sites to production, which was a nightmare in and of itself. I'm curious of sitecore has gotten any better, but I highly doubt it.
ReplyDeleteYes to all of this. Bloated and overly complicated. I worked on sitecore projects for two years and it was a total pain in the ass - and I have 18 years of development experience. Our company team brought in sitecore consultants for a weeklong training session. Our development team is highly skilled. We all failed the test at the end of the training session. During my 2 years of working with sitecore, we built websites for our clients with cms functionality for them, but they never used the cms part! If they wanted something changed, they would just ask us to do it. And don't get me started on deploying these sites to production, which was a nightmare in and of itself. I'm curious of sitecore has gotten any better, but I highly doubt it.
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ReplyDeleteOMG. my feelings exactly... can't believe its 2016 and still the same.
ReplyDeleteWhat a frustrating bloated framework. I spend 3/4 of my day dealing with this crap.
ReplyDelete2017 update: Sitecore still sucks.
ReplyDeleteI'm working with sitecore since 2011 and hate it more and more, it's very hard to develop for sitecore, but our company decides to switch other systems like headless cms.
ReplyDelete2018 update: Sitecore still sucks.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather hand code my site than manage it on Sitecore.
ReplyDeleteI’d rather update html content 8 days a week than using sitecore
ReplyDelete2019: sitecore still sucks. I'd rather develop my .net apps in notepad.
ReplyDeleteSC is terrible software. Everything is way too complicated at every aspect of it!!
ReplyDelete2020: Sitecore still sucks!
ReplyDeleteIt's still a disappointment. I'm writing this while waiting for sitecore to start responding again.
ReplyDeleteIt's expensive and underwhelming (at best).
Sitecore's component restrictive front end is a constant bottleneck for all feature development. I hate it. It's bloated, slow, and to future-focused without nailing the most basic needs for now.
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