Divi 5 Alpha: First Impressions by an Elementor User

Here's a first impression of Divi 5 from an Elementor and Bricks user. The public alpha was recently released for testing, and my friend kindly set it up for me to try.
I'm not an experienced Divi user, so please pardon any mistakes and let me know in the comments.

[@erixxu3260]

Happy to see Divi and Elementor competing and learn from each other, is good for us as users, wish both of them grow and lower down cost and price. :)😄

[@daveden2]

Agreed!

[@edywerder]

Nice video and good points. Even it’s an Alpha I doubt they will add your point raised to Divi 5. It’s more about bug fixing. Add to library is saving a row to library for reuse like Elementor templates.

[@daveden2]

Yes, unfortunately, I think so, too. Maybe they will be added in v5.1. Oh, I see. I was told there are presets that I did not test as well.

[@edywerder]

@@daveden2 yes preset is for module similar than defaults in Elementor.

[@daveden2]

@@edywerder oh okay, thanks. I'll check that out

[@heinvanvlastuin4954]

I thought that they would introduce flexbox in Divi 5. I am disappointed to hear that this is still not supported.

[@daveden2]

I'm hoping that the alpha is just a starting point, and they'll introduce those features soon enough

[@heinvanvlastuin4954]

@@daveden2 Let's hope so. The Divi users deserve it.

[@heinvanvlastuin4954]

I appreciate your unbiased review.

[@PatentFinance]

they are doing flexbox soon.

[@daveden2]

@@PatentFinance, ah, I see! Thanks for the update. I'll make an updated video when it comes out (and I've done more testing with Divi).

[@liante15]

In DIVI, we do not use wordpress builtin Customizer that you are thinking belong to DIVI. You can overwrite everything that you are complaining of the content width from DIVI Theme Builder.

[@daveden2]

I must have missed it. I'll take a look again. So where do we change the font sizes for h1-h6 in the theme builder?

[@liante15]

@@daveden2 In DIVI, you will build child theme where you control everything with the code itself or with divi builtin section blurb. Spend more time, you will find it very intuitive.

[@daveden2]

@@liante15 Okay, thanks 👍 I'll take a look

[@lizelfving4084]

No way I switch to Divi from using Elementor

[@daveden2]

Yeah, me too. But maybe they'll add some new features before the final release or in v5.1

[@daveden2]

What features do you love the most about Divi?

[@heinvanvlastuin4954]

I like the update of the interface.

[@daveden2]

@@heinvanvlastuin4954 Yeah, the new interface looks much better than the old ones.

[@antonichristian5845]

I have never liked the way you have to work with Divi on the actual page itself by clicking buttons and adding modules etc... so I personally have very limited experience with it. I was hoping in the new version they would scrap that way of working and bring it into 2024/25 when it comes to flex and grid and so forth. It appears in this new version all they have done is upgraded the user interface and made it much faster to work with. Sadly it looks like they have not learned anything new so I will not be using it. Also where is the div layout module in Divi? lol

[@daveden2]

Yes, that is what I have come to understand as well. They only focused on the user interface and performance, nothing more.

[@geraldmukisa7512]

Compared to other modern builders, divi is very frustrating

[@daveden2]

Yes, I feel it needs more work to get it to the way we expect builders to work.

[@zafit02]

Once I was about to be hired by a good web design company, but when I realized they were using DIVI for their projects, I was quite disappointed. It seemed so limited in so many ways that it felt like a builder that, instead of making things easier, complicated absolutely everything. In the end, I turned down the job offer because of it

[@daveden2]

Yes, the builder feels quite different from what I am used to. Perhaps with a few add-ons, everything will get much better.