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I have been an Oxygen Builder user for a few years now and I like it most of the time. I see an increase in Brick Builder users.
Has anyone switched from Oxygen Builder to Brick Builder? I would love to hear your thoughts on the switch. What do you like about Bricks that you didn’t have with Oxygen? What do you miss?
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You can try it out in sandbox and see for yourself. I played around with it a while ago and didn’t see anything that was better than Oxygen.
I switched to Bricks at the beginning of the year after using Oxygen for a couple of years. I find my workflow with Bricks is much quicker – saving is almost instant (there are occasions when it slows down, particularly with custom field heavy pages, but a refresh normally solves the issue). The query loop is much more friendly compared to the repeater in Oxygen – a couple of clicks and I can have a semi-advanced query running without having to figure out what elements I need to add like in the Oxygen advanced query builder. Overall I find Bricks to be less buggy and I don’t spend as much time in the Facebook groups trying to find a fix for something.
It also seems like the Bricks dev team listens to feedback more and are more transparent about what they are working on – for example it took Oxygen years to be able to change the HTML tag of a repeater, which wasn’t great for accessibility. There are other little things like being able to rename a class, or not having to click 3 times to change an ID and dragging items around the structure panel just works.
I still have several client sites on Oxygen and honestly I find it painful to make changes at times, compared to Bricks.
Bricks is Oxygen with form builder and better UX.