Ha I was thinking this too. For the kind of builder it's trying to be, it does it well. But that only really rubs more salt in the oxygen wound.

I feel the same… it is better than you'd expect. Only thing is the repeated way Louis handled his entry in to the market is a little concerning, but on the other hand he feels like a very particular, but authentic character. Either way, I consider him a very talented developer and the things he put into the product are really thoughtful. On the marketing front, his skill apparently could improve. I still think he could have handled the transition to a new builder and subscription model with more delicacy.

Good informational video showcasing all the features we Oxygen users got robbed off.

Fasten your seatbelt Paul. Here goes! 🎉 After watching several videos on Breakdance, I am giving serious consideration of adding this to my stack of tools 🛠️! Particularly, the way and flexibility of using CPT’s with ACF and various components!

I have invested too much in Elementor, for me to switch now. I have the cheap $99/year license with 1000 sites. I also have Bricks Ltd just in case. But, the good thing about Breakdance and Bricks etc, is that it will trigger a better Elementor. Competition is good. I still have faith in E. They will release a loop builder, nested elements and mega menu soon 😊 And, another thing. If I switch tech stack every year, it will cost way too much. E still does a very good job for my business.

A rocky past doesn't inspire confidence but also isn't a deal breaker. They're definitely not afraid to do what they think is best.

Honestly I jumped at it from the first announcement and I have used it constantly and truly i find it really refreshing comparing it to the stale elementor

I don't really understand what all the stress is about. Choice is good. We don't need to be fanboys , let's just use the right tool for the project in hand and that best for your business. Louis is no doubt a very accomplished developer. I wish him well.

I have played around with it and the more I do the more I find myself liking it. It’s really difficult not to like it.

and Elementor still no native loop builder 😅 This and Bricks are looking so good. I only use Elementor these days if i need Jet Engine suite.

This is the future. Been using breakdance and it’s better than elementor. In my opinion.

Yes, this is greater than I would even imagine. Thanks for your fair review, Paul.

Heard several positive opinions of the builder regarding the quality of the websites and the functions it has. However, I would not trust a builder who treats their clients like they did with oxygen. I am full with bricks who is very, very slow in development but I am liking designing with bricks. I have a friend who, if I buy oxygen, feels betrayed and thinks about buying BD in its "pirated" version (gpl) instead of paying the developer. It's good that I decided to pay for bricks and not oxygen if I wouldn't be the same as him haha.

Paul - honestly - this is excellent 👌👌 don't know what to say...Just simple perfect video 👍👍👍👍 : Its great 👑💓🕊!: would love to see a new vid that covers the new version 6-1 that arrives next week

Fool me once, shame on me... I haven't watched your video yet but I felt the need to comment preemptively 😅

I think Breakdance is going to become a better version of Elementor

I'm so conflicted over this whole Breakdance/Oxygen thing. Thank you for your perspective. At the end of the day though, Soflyy has lost my trust, and it's going to be hard to get it back.

the only thing that should count for us, developers, web designers, etc... is: is the code generated by this or that builder more SEO friendly, faster? Personally, selling 10ths of sites per year, the internal stories of this or that company do not matter to me. All that matters is the cleanliness of the generated code because in the end, it's the SEO result that counts for our clients. So in the end, compare to oxygen for example, what does Breakdance bring to this plan?

After watching the first few seconds I had high hopes of a simple or as you keep saying "easy" way of doing things. BUT sadly it might sound easy to you or any number of experts out there but not normal humans..lol For example all I want to do to start with is follow the break dance tutorial by Louis that shows how to make the woocommerce store more modern as he puts it. Sadly I cant even find out how to establish a starting point as in his video of a simple woocommerce store front . I really had high hope for you video to enlighten me but sadly ,whilst it seems simple to you, its like rocket science to me. :( Hopefully after a period of time I can revisit your videos and understand what you are saying is simple and easy, Thanks for your time though.

Looks very inviting. How about the page bloat, if there is any? How does it compare to a Gutenebrg page speed load?

Hahaha! An Elementor ad just came on before this video. So, I went ahead and purchased it.

Breakdance is very intriguing to me. Paul how is the page load speeds with Breakdance vs Elementor or similar builders?

Louis said some features wouldn't be in Breakdance because Breakdance is intended for a different market.... yet here we are, loads of those features appearing in Breakdance.

Comparison between Bricks and breakdance?

Hi Paul, You are right, Break Dance is dancing but I don't think we can own all the page builders in the market, but I am really sorry to say I really don't trust this company any more as we were waiting for Oxygen to be something like Break Dance, but after years of waiting, instead of improving Oxygen, they came up with a new page builder and they dump all of their Oxygen customers. Everyone will have their own opinion, but as an Oxygen full license owner, I am really frustrated about this. Actually all the features in BD should be implement into Oxygen as they have promised in Oxygen website, but instead they took the advantage of new features to get more profit. Everyone let's start using gutenberg editor instead of those page builders. 👎👎👎

Thanks for the very good video as usual. Indeed Breakdance has a nice UI. However for me BreakDance is lost somewhere between the pagebuilder and Gutentenber as you have to lauch a special UI to use it. I don't understand why they didn't build BD features and UI directly on top of Gutenberg. Personaly, even if I have my free licence of Breakdance as a formal lifetime user of Oxygen, I don't think I will use it.

Elementor is in trouble

Hahaha...I feel the EXACT same way!

I really hate how good it already works and looks.... really, really great... and it's still in beta

You've pretty much nailed how I feel about it, you could almost describe using it as a guilty pleasure! Noticed you didn't use their header element in your header. That's pretty nifty as well. I also like the way it handles responsive typography and presets and classes work ok as well.

Hi! I'm working with the migration mode. The website had a mega menu, in order to save some time I imported a temple from the design library (after reading the pop-up that it could be restored from the trash). Now that I see that doing that wasn't a good idea because I lost basically all the previous work/information and just got left this new design without the content being substituted/transferred I'd really appreciate if someone could please guide me on how to restore all the templates. Headers, footers, content, etc. from the trash (I've been trying to find where or how to do it but haven't figured it out yet) Thanks!!

Oxygen is an excellent pagebuilder, but it fails because it didn't have a good business plan. Why should Breakdance succeed? Does his suspicious start look like a good business plan?

any update on this in the past 8 months? has oxygen been developed much since this video was created?

Its totally up to users however personally I wouldn't use it.

BD seems very well designed and already with a large amount of features already built in and rapidly pushing out new stuff. Also Louis seems very respondsive and ready to implement what is needed. The builder seems fast. I don´t really get why Oxygen users get that upset, its called progress and as far as I know Oxygen still works. I have had Oxygen for a long time and never really got into it. Most have paid 99 to 149USD for a lifetime deal and that is cheap as in very cheap if you earn a living from using it.

I gotta say Lewis and the team have built and impressive builder in a crazy short period of time. I still wouldn't trust Bricks with a production site and it's been out of RC for well over a year.

I understand that Oxygen Users feel betrayed and the marketing here isn't the nicest way. But consider one thing. Page Builders like oxygen which are on the market for long get not only bloated but also the code becomes more or less chaotic when there is added more anf more stuff und bugs are fixed by huge third party updates and so on. So from time to time the best practice would be to rewrite the whole program. Either you stop updating your software for 1-2 years and leave your customers alone and come back with a clean code or.. you simply open a new chapter and rebuild a new project and make everything better. Also: Oxygen Lifetime is a cheap deal. When everyone has his lifetime license and nobody puts more money in the pot, you have to do something. Else your company dies and so does the theme and then you have neither oxygen or breakdance. Think about Divi. How are they gonna make the cut? Everyone has lifetime. The thing gets bigger and bigger. New Devs choose different paths for Performance. Divi will die in their current state, sooner or later. So what will happen? They will create a new software without lifetime licenses. Lifetime licenses will die sooner or later. Its not rentabel. It helped to get bigger in short time, but you have to choose another path at some point.

Is padding only available in px? That doesn't seem very current?

Breakdance or Elementor? Is it worth the switch?

I'll give it a try but one year free at this point just means bug hunting, regardless of the "politics" Isn't it another Elementor and Divi but better? I feel it may be market driven but that doesn't matter if the product is sound.

Haha 😂 I really like Breakdance tooo I can’t lie. I’m throwing Elementor away when this goes live . But I will keep my license

On what Framework is breakdance based? Bricks on Vue which is good, Oxygen on Angular which people dont like. Can't find informations to Breakdance?

There a lot of things done great from people that I don't like because they screwed me in the past... I NEVER do the same mistake twice...

Any update video about breakdance?

Breakdance Builder is like a fun version of Oxygen. It has the potential to kill Elementor and any other page builder, especially because Breakdance though it is advised not to use any themes along with it, it still allows you to use themes - which isn't in the case of Oxygen which is what turned away many new WP users from using Oxygen. And yes, Elementor had and still has a free version while Oxygen and Breakdance don't. The reason why people used themes along with Elementor is that the free version doesn't build a Header and Footer. I think it's about time the Oxygen team's skills are rewarded moneywise especially because a lifetime subscription though it is a great deal for users, doesn't really help with future development of the product, which directly impacts users and results in slow or fast death of the product. Bricks is a great product with basic optimizations already implemented, but if you know proper optimization, after implementing all the available optimizations outside of the Oxygen Builder, Oxygen is still the king. Though I signed up for Breakdance and also downloaded a copy of it, I didn't test it until yesterday! You should know the reason. 😀I realized it's a new love child of Oxygen and Bricks. Anyways, I am a bit caughtup with the tendency of calling Breakdance, as Brick; and Bricks as Breakdance like most of the others. It reminds me of a famous site which had their competition using .net TLD while they used .com TLD and resulting in return-visitors instead of visiting .net visiting .com --- All-in-all, let's blame the Branding as the true and the only problem with Breakdance. The fault is in the Stars?! 🤣

Brizy on steroids… so pissed off … that should have been oxygen 5 from the beginning.

Why would the makers of oxygen build a new builder?

What happened with Oxygen????

I’ve wanted to properly look into break dance for a while but their constant elementor bashing adverts on Facebook really rub me up the wrong way. Just makes me feel as a customer at some point in the future they’ll treat me the same.

I love the efficiency of working in Breakdance, but for me the lack of conciseness with the code output makes me lean toward Bricks for my new projects. Bricks just outputs far cleaner code, but does take a little bit longer to do some things.

What about Framer website?

still i want other, easier to use builders... bricks and breakdance is not for me at this moment... too complex and too hard to use. When i need advanced builder... i will definitely choose one of them

I have no doubt it’s an awesome builder, I mean they used the oxygen community suggestions and requests to build it. Ethically I can’t support this project and nor the developer…

Well Elementor really need to get their shit together... all builers are getting better from the start....

Why would you not want to like it?

Can someone explain the "controversy" about Breakdance?

Would this work with crocoblock?

Meh. Moved from elementor to bricks with pretty good results. But ultimately, Gutenberg is the future of this platform. I've permanently moved over to the block editor via generate press and blocks and I'll never go back to a page builder. These builders I think will soon be obsolete. I also believe they will suffer the same fate elementor has with shit performance. After using gutenberg for a while and converting all my sites over, it's truly a powerful editor. Breakdance is no different. It's created by devs that have made shady business decisions and is to new on the market to really trust with live client sites. Just my thoughts

I would rather use Elementor again than Breakdance or Oxygen. Rather use investors supported products than ever money hungry rude one-man show.

No, thanks. It's not about the product. It's about the developer. I don't want to get stabbed again. I'm happy with Bricks.

Honest, but unfair towards the development of oxygen

Can't trust this company and don't want to support it either. There are tons of options with nice developers behind the product like Kadence, Cwicly, Bricks, Generatepress and so on. Not interested

Poor version of webflow 😢