# Hugo has some real usability issues... Let's address them

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-has-some-real-usability-issues-lets-address-them/35410>\
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**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-has-some-real-usability-issues-lets-address-them/35410 "2021-11-02T13:23:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-has-some-real-usability-issues-lets-address-them/35410/14 "2022-02-19T13:56:03Z")

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> [@pitifi9191](#):
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> trust me once you go past this frustrating stage where you don’t know how Hugo works etc. you will end up loving it.

TBH, I like it now than the beginning, but far from loving it. My case was a simple blog. I will see in future when I try to add an e-commerce shop if the frustration will be less.

> [@pitifi9191](#):
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> - access to knowledge for beginners is the main issue I see with hugo.
> - lack of new Hugo tutorials blogs is the second main issue

And this is a glaring problem. Cue this example of me looking for “subsection” only to find it is called “nested section”.

> [@pitifi9191](#):
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> documentation is not search friendly

Someone mentioned how the documentation is scattered across different sections. Hence, a need for a new approach to documentation. Last I checked, the small team Hugo has (mainly volunteers) means such issues are always put in the back-burner.

> [@pitifi9191](#):
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> any recommendations or feedback is usually ignored or aggressively silenced.

I have spent hours in this forum and these instances come up several times, but the moderators have been more aggressive in recent years than in the past when the community was small.

> [@pitifi9191](#):
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> So I can say I love Hugo for the simplicity and speed and I hate Hugo for lack of up-to-date easy to access knowledge.

I tried Hugo for the fast build speeds, otherwise, I had no problem with Jekyll _per se_. But it being a single binary is also something I like. Perhaps the more I interact with it, I might find other things I like. The documentation is what I hate the most and also having to result to [trial and error](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-get-the-last-element-in-a-path/37229/2) to get things done.

[Just a note](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-the-jekyll-project-dead/6820/7)

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