Gannett, Gatehouse talking merger

I have my own bad memories about SuxoTech.

 

It's Presto for the on-site folks and NewsGate/CCI for the editors and designers.

 

Oh, Newsgate. Fun times.

 

Saxotech?!?!? That takes me back. Soooooooo sloooowwwwww.

 

Hope they updated ... if only to undo the massive mistakes incorporated into the last version.

And SaxoTech? Blech ... trying to be kind ...

 

That's all journalism truly is now. It's so strange. We really should be nonprofit organizations and get rid of the moneygrubbing 1 percenters. I mean these companies don't give a flip about their employees, journalism, good stories. They care only about the top execs getting to stockpile their billions. Yes, some woebegone buttkiss suits care about good journalism and winning Pulitzer prizes and I suppose the top echelon 1 percenters at companies nod in approval if they win some top awards, but make no mistake. The little guys producing good journalims are pawns in arguably the worst business in the history of businesses: Newspapers (news gathering companies, whatever you want to call them). It's sick. Reporters and deskers really should all get out. All they are doing is helping 1 percenters, that's it.

 

Wait, SaxoTech is still a thing? Gannett switched from that to its in-house CMS Presto in like 2014. And honestly, it was pretty good relative to a lot of other CMS. Assuming it has improved somewhat since I was last on it in 2017.

 

Last time I used SaxoTech was for Gannett in 2008. It was like working in satan’s asshole.

 

I'm shocked SaxoTech is still alive. I used that when I was the web editor in Newark (Ohio) in 2007. I think it was still around in my second stint there a few years later but haven't thought about it in years.

 

The last paper I was at full-time switched from Blox to Saxotech in like... 2016, 2017? One copy editor in particular pretty much thought it was akin to a second Holocaust, and spent more than a week complaining to every single person who came into the newsroom about it. (Like, even regular randoms that came in from the street.) I didn't think it was a great CMS, but I've also used like five different systems at this point, and pretty much all of them have had downsides.

 

The worst CMS in history is always whatever you're currently on.

 

That will never change.