I need to share something that’s been seriously impacting my work, because I’m at a point where I genuinely don’t know what to expect from this platform anymore.
About a month ago I identified and reported an editor bug: when a Repeating Group’s cell’s container layout is set to Fixed, the editor starts lagging severely and eventually crashes. Fans going crazy, the browser throwing a “page unresponsive” warning, have to force close the browser .. that sort of crash. Switching the layout away from Fixed restores performance instantly. It’s consistent and reproducible.
I submitted multiple support tickets, I sent screen recordings, I did all the troubleshooting. I even found the root cause myself. The ticket finally reached the engineering team.
That was a month ago. Nothing has been fixed.
Since the RG layout bug was never fixed, eventually I had to use a bunch of CSS to mimic the cell’s fixed layout behaviour. I’m building a floor plan, fixed layout is not a nice thing to have, it’s absolutely necessary.
After pushing for an update, this is what I got from the specialised support team:
“Our engineering team’s investigation is still ongoing, and they’ve been discussing priority over a fix. They’ve taken an initial look and deployed some optimisations, only for the behaviour to persist.”
Their suggested workaround: reduce the number of groups inside the RG to a fixed size. (Ha? .. meaning “what?”)
And “discussing priority” after a month, on a reproducible crash that affects core editor functionality?
In the meantime, I’ve been dealing with separate, unrelated editor crashes on two major builds I’ve been working on for weeks. The editor is now working, 10 minutes later it doesn’t, it’s throwing a page unresponsive warning, fans go into overdrive and eventually crashes. Not as bad as the crash caused by the fixed RG layout bug but serious enough to make me abandon the work. There is no clear cause, no pattern I can pin down. It could be a group, a RG, a plugin … something specific is causing it but there’s no way to isolate it. Just an editor that becomes genuinely unreliable for serious work. And then, just to make it more baffling, in some cases, I come back to the same Reusable a week later and it works perfectly fine.
When I reported this, the response was:
“We’re looking to understand why this is occurring as soon as our team can.”
As soon as they can. I’m fully reliant on this platform for that built. What am I supposed to do in the meantime?
Bubble is actively working on a new editor UI redesign right now that nobody asked for. But when a bug that crashes the editor is sitting with engineering for a month with no fix and no timeline, it’s hard to understand where the priorities actually are.
Bugs happen, that’s fine. But a month of silence on something this serious, followed by “we’re discussing priority”? That’s a trust problem.
Is anyone else experiencing consistent editor crashes (this is unrelated to the usual editor heaviness)?
How does Bubble see this, when the core of what they are, the editor itself, is unreliable for serious builds?
I’ve been building on Bubble for over 3 years but right now I can’t trust the platform with serious, time-sensitive work. And I’d genuinely like to know if others feel the same.
