I understand, Nelson, and I sympathize with you and all the developers in the Divi ecosystem. Unfortunately, there's no avoiding it-many plugins and themes will need to be rebuilt from the ground up. But once you get past that challenge, it’ll be smooth sailing. Divi 5 is the future!
Thanks for the update! Exciting times! Nice to know more about the timelines and development in terms of Divi 5. Regarding questions, do you have any Black Friday specials upcoming? Also, do you have any DIVI design & or Custom CSS courses? I watch your tutorials often & love them!
We always have one sale/discount a year at Black Friday, we try to price everything fair to avoid running sales, but we make that one exception and offer 25% everything. I don't have a course on CSS, but I keep wanting to, I think instead I'll make a free blog series.
I have been using divi for a long time but responsiveness is a great issue. Should I learn switching to divi 4 or wait for divi 5 or learn css media queries for responsive over all devices?? Btw great work sir..
In the next few months we will be faced with the task of updating our website, which currently runs on Divi 4, to a new corporate design. What I keep asking myself is whether the new technical basis of Divi 5 is simply a big step compared to Divi 4, but overall only a catch-up in the market to e.g. Elementor or whether the new basis of Divi 5 even offers a technological advance over Elementor and Co. which will become increasingly clear through further updates after the completion of Divi 5. So is Divi 5 more future-proof than the competition for the next few years or has it only reached their level? I would like to make my decision on whether to wait for Divi 5 or whether I would rather switch to another system for the relaunch of our company website.
I can definitely answer that. Yes, it will certainly be future-proof. The fact that it is block based is huge, and that in itself is future proof. There is only a few other builders like this. Remember the history, like a few years after Divi, then came Elementor and they adapted new technology. So now that technology is getting quite old as well.
I stopped using Divi 2 years ago because Divi 4 is completely outdated, underperforming and frustrating to use compared to many other builders/themes out there. I'm very excited for Divi 5, i will wait for it to mature into a stable version so i can use Divi again in production but I tested the alpha and it look very promising. I think it's the only way Divi can survive in the long run. I understand that it must be lot of work for you, making sure all you plugins are compatible and optimized for it.
Thank you for sharing! I love Divi 4 interface, and am sad to see them change more like other builders. I personally have never had any trouble with performance, but I know some have complained of that. Hopefully all those things will be addressed for all users moving forward.
@@PeeAyeCreative Thank you for your reply :) I own a small web agency and we are making 2-3 websites per week only using WordPress. The performance of Divi in the frontend can ben very decent now with a good hosting and a good caching plugin, but the backend builder is terrible especially when working on complexe and/or long page, it's honestly the worst. It's very laggy and very slow when switching from one UI Box to another (If you try to go too fast it' can even be very buggy where changes don't apply correctly), it's a nightmare to work with when you want to go fast and be efficient. Also lot of the controls are outdated and can be very restricting for some layouts or responsive design, making the code very unoptimized and maintaining the design troublesome. My Guess is you don't really care about going fast with the builder and maybe you don't need it often to do complexe websites/pages (and that's fine) but I find being productive on Divi 4 really annoying. That's why I am very excited about Divi 5, I like the ecosystem they created and if they improve the builder it's really appealing.
Thanks, good to get an objective view on where they are at, I’ll wait!!
Glad it was helpful! Maybe I can do another update in a few months.
Good update, Thanks! Liked tbe "sky through the trees" analogy. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Glad you liked the analogy! :)
Thanks for your support Nelson.
You're welcome!
I understand, Nelson, and I sympathize with you and all the developers in the Divi ecosystem. Unfortunately, there's no avoiding it-many plugins and themes will need to be rebuilt from the ground up. But once you get past that challenge, it’ll be smooth sailing. Divi 5 is the future!
Yes, it'll be a lot of work, but it'll be worth it!
Thanks for the update! Exciting times! Nice to know more about the timelines and development in terms of Divi 5. Regarding questions, do you have any Black Friday specials upcoming? Also, do you have any DIVI design & or Custom CSS courses? I watch your tutorials often & love them!
We always have one sale/discount a year at Black Friday, we try to price everything fair to avoid running sales, but we make that one exception and offer 25% everything. I don't have a course on CSS, but I keep wanting to, I think instead I'll make a free blog series.
@@PeeAyeCreative I would like that too!
I have been using divi for a long time but responsiveness is a great issue. Should I learn switching to divi 4 or wait for divi 5 or learn css media queries for responsive over all devices?? Btw great work sir..
In the next few months we will be faced with the task of updating our website, which currently runs on Divi 4, to a new corporate design. What I keep asking myself is whether the new technical basis of Divi 5 is simply a big step compared to Divi 4, but overall only a catch-up in the market to e.g. Elementor or whether the new basis of Divi 5 even offers a technological advance over Elementor and Co. which will become increasingly clear through further updates after the completion of Divi 5. So is Divi 5 more future-proof than the competition for the next few years or has it only reached their level? I would like to make my decision on whether to wait for Divi 5 or whether I would rather switch to another system for the relaunch of our company website.
I can definitely answer that. Yes, it will certainly be future-proof. The fact that it is block based is huge, and that in itself is future proof. There is only a few other builders like this. Remember the history, like a few years after Divi, then came Elementor and they adapted new technology. So now that technology is getting quite old as well.
Do you think that they can release office version at the end of 2024???
There's no need to set a hard date. Beta comes after Alpha, so yes in a few months it will probably change to Beta around that time.
I stopped using Divi 2 years ago because Divi 4 is completely outdated, underperforming and frustrating to use compared to many other builders/themes out there.
I'm very excited for Divi 5, i will wait for it to mature into a stable version so i can use Divi again in production but I tested the alpha and it look very promising.
I think it's the only way Divi can survive in the long run.
I understand that it must be lot of work for you, making sure all you plugins are compatible and optimized for it.
Thank you for sharing! I love Divi 4 interface, and am sad to see them change more like other builders. I personally have never had any trouble with performance, but I know some have complained of that. Hopefully all those things will be addressed for all users moving forward.
@@PeeAyeCreative Thank you for your reply :)
I own a small web agency and we are making 2-3 websites per week only using WordPress. The performance of Divi in the frontend can ben very decent now with a good hosting and a good caching plugin, but the backend builder is terrible especially when working on complexe and/or long page, it's honestly the worst. It's very laggy and very slow when switching from one UI Box to another (If you try to go too fast it' can even be very buggy where changes don't apply correctly), it's a nightmare to work with when you want to go fast and be efficient. Also lot of the controls are outdated and can be very restricting for some layouts or responsive design, making the code very unoptimized and maintaining the design troublesome. My Guess is you don't really care about going fast with the builder and maybe you don't need it often to do complexe websites/pages (and that's fine) but I find being productive on Divi 4 really annoying.
That's why I am very excited about Divi 5, I like the ecosystem they created and if they improve the builder it's really appealing.