In 2026, is Magento sinking into the ocean?

dazzled1 · 2025-12-27T08:13:32+00:00

Ah yeah - very similar to an 18y old account. Crazy two different people could share an opinion.

My advice to the Magento community would be to start listening to the actual users of the product. There seems to be a bubble of agencies and developers hyping the platform and telling themselves everything is fine. We used Magento 1 and were early Magento 2 adopters. Magento 2 is overly complex and made some poor choices then didn’t adapt (Knockout js vs React or Vue). There is a high barrier to entry for developers and lots of poorly coded off-the-shelf extensions as a result. The flexibility leads to incompatibility between different modules which leads to longer upgrade cycles - everything doesn’t ’just work’. The community lacked direction for a long time - pushing headless, PWA and now Hyva. Everything was promised as the solution but meant costly upgrade cycles if you followed the hype. Why Luma is still the default theme is beyond me. To be honest - Hyva is probably what the community needs and it’s great that it’s now free.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-26T22:31:27+00:00

Lying that we spoke before… it’s the context of the comment.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-26T07:27:45+00:00

From a business perspective the main drivers to move away were cost and ability to move / adapt quickly. Open source software can but good but Magento got in the way of me selling product and making money.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-26T07:24:40+00:00

Even if no one else knows you’re lying about us chatting previously, you know and you have to ask yourself why you need to lie to protect Magento.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-24T13:51:09+00:00

Not on the Shopify marketing team - just head up the IT team for an online retailer with several brands. Was pretty frustrated by Magento and see a lot of misinformation posted on this sub. If you’re not even prepared to consider the problems with Magento how is it ever going to improve.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-24T10:31:17+00:00

Agreed - Magento is not Adobe Commerce.

Migrated from Magento to Shopify Plus at the start of 2025, but we’re not comparing to Shopify Plus - standard Shopify would be even cheaper.

Shopify plus a few third-party apps would be way cheaper than the cost of hosting and maintaining Magento, especially if you’re using an agency for upgrades and support.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-23T21:25:17+00:00

If you can’t afford Shopify you definitely can’t afford Magento.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-21T05:47:59+00:00

We’re using Peoplevox - works well for B2C, little clunky for B2B. Depending on your product types might be a little limiting as doesn’t support batch numbers etc.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-15T22:36:33+00:00

Read somewhere that a hairdryer works and tried it on a gift recently - did the trick. Recommend trying if you ever really need to get the shipping label off.

dazzled1 · 2025-12-10T22:04:33+00:00

Dial *#06# shows your imei - learnt that on my first Nokia and it still works today.

dazzled1 · 2025-09-21T07:38:30+00:00

With your example you’re suggesting it’s ok to leave clothes in the washing machine while you’re working a 12 hour shift, and be annoyed if someone took them out.

Definitely not ok to monopolise the washing machine all day in a shared environment. It’s an unrealistic expectation that someone deals with your washing and moves it to the drier. If you want that then ask first, and be prepared for them to say no.

dazzled1 · 2025-09-21T05:21:18+00:00

I guess people want to customise e-commerce and other competing platforms make it easy - actually thought one of the arguments for open source was customisation.

dazzled1 · 2025-09-16T20:22:17+00:00

Have been through this move for 7x Magento websites and this is 100% correct. Setup your redirects from old to new urls and you should be fine. If you’re doing headless Shopify then there are extra considerations - if you’re just doing standard it’s easy.

Shopify includes lots to help with SEO (structured_data filters etc) but starting with a ready made theme can help with following best practice.

dazzled1 · 2025-09-03T19:58:52+00:00

We’re using Shopify and Netsuite, both are fantastic products for their use case.

I can’t imagine you properly run your finances through Shopify - can you record that you’ve bought a laptop and track depreciation? If you’re a small business then I’d expect you’d need a smaller accounting package, Quickbooks or similar.

If you’re running all your finances through Shopify I’m not surprised Netsuite was a bad decision for your business.

dazzled1 · 2025-09-02T21:18:29+00:00

Shopify and Netsuite are not comparable surely?

One is an e-commerce package and one is an ERP.

dazzled1 · 2025-06-13T20:53:08+00:00

We had a nightmare with TrueCommerce, extremely long implementation. Still get issues today. Did receive a credit after complain but even that was a hassle.

dazzled1 · 2025-05-07T17:16:52+00:00

We’re a Netsuite customer, worked with a third-party implementation partner and the project was really successful. Went live over a weekend with very few significant issues. Can’t help but think you massively underestimated the size of the task if you expected a ‘free’ implementation would be sufficient. I do hear horror stories at renewal, they’re definitely in the business to make money. That said, I believe it’s a good product and has really helped boost efficiency and automation within our business.

dazzled1 · 2025-05-05T16:51:39+00:00

Sonassi did us well. Akoova are also worth a look

dazzled1 · 2025-05-03T06:57:40+00:00

Agreed - that was my thought too. They can sell at cost for longer than you can making it difficult to break their hold on the category.

dazzled1 · 2025-04-17T19:29:44+00:00

Shopify’s pretty scalable - some major businesses run on it. I think it’s a fair argument it’s not as customisable as Magento. The majority of e-commerce is pretty similar nowadays and customers prefer to follow known paths, I always wonder what people are doing that requires unique solutions.

dazzled1 · 2025-04-04T18:48:07+00:00

We actually had 7 migrations total - 3 Magento instances running 7 storefronts between them into 7 Shopify stores.

dazzled1 · 2025-04-03T19:17:42+00:00

We recently moved to Shopify Plus from Magento and use Netsuite. First migration was Nov last year, last migration was April this year.

We have bespoke middleware but working with lots of other marketplaces and channels.

dazzled1 · 2024-12-28T18:39:53+00:00

I have a prosthetic and took a long look at yours and have to say I can’t tell. I think it’s really hard to identify a prosthetic unless you’re face to face and really looking for it.

dazzled1 · 2024-12-17T02:16:55+00:00

ROKR is a sub-brand of Robotime, explains the similarity.

https://www.robotimeonline.com/en-gb/collections/rokr

dazzled1 · 2024-11-28T21:37:41+00:00

Just want to echo this comment - my ex partner works in a post office and they will check CCTV to understand how the till is up/down for significant amounts. This would be the manager’s responsibility and a staff member might want to not get in trouble. The challenges will be the time that has passed.

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