I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export.
I took it over from a client after their previous webdesigner very obviously struggled to make a half decent website with it.
The whole thing is a bunch of images, a menu and maybe one page worth of text alltogether - basically a small product catalog. But even that ,because of the convoluted code Wix creates, is impossible to export in a half-maintainable way.
And I have checked - it´s not just the webdesigner´s fault - I mean, I´ve tried to open the wix editing tool, and it uses so much memory that it regularily crashed the chrome tab that I had opened it in.
It´s really one of the worst tools that I have ever used (I am sure there is worse - but I haven´t used it).
Wix does not support the exporting of files created using Wix to an external destination or host. All
Wix creations are hosted on Wix's servers. The advantages of using Wix as your host include
improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more.
So I don´t really know what he is even talking about in that "Open letter"
Edit: and to add "improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more." my ass...
> Your Wix site and its technology is hosted on Wix's servers. You can connect a domain to your Wix site and host the domain with another provider, however, your Wix site must remain hosted on Wix's servers.
They then go on to say that the reason you can't export is due to the nature of SaaS, which is just hogwash. It's a lock-in decision they made, which many of their competitors (E.g Squarespace, Webflow) did not make.
There is a fundamental difference between natively offering data export vs referring your users to third party scrapers with no direct support.
He even said it himself - they haven’t “turned them off” or limited them but that tells you all you need to know about their perspective on those “export tools”.
