Thanks, @TrevReav . Enjoyed looking over your website to see just what Blocs can do.
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Thank you, @Helen . It feels great to be here. Looking forward to exploring all that Blocs has to offer.
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I am coming over from RW as well (former Foundry user) and will start with my new sites soon. I can recommend the Master Class and the minimalist library from @Eldar it is well worth the money. For templates, have a look at https://www.templays.com
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Great to connect with you here, @Fuellemann . And thanks for the solid recommendations, which I am seriously considering. Looking forward to seeing your own upcoming Blocs sites.
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Hi @bricov @A2B and also @Fuellemann (from the Foundry forum).
I too am a RW transient switcharoo. It’s been since October when Foundry all went boom! And I finally thought it was time to look elsewhere as everything was looking uncertain. I will tell you in these short few months I have converted (meaning redone not actually ‘converted’) four largish websites to Blocs and created two new ones.
The frameworks I used in RW were Foundation 1 then Foundation 6, then Foundry 2 and finally Foundry 3. What I will say is that @bricov looking at your site you will easily reproduce your site in Blocs. I am loving Blocs and you will find it fun to use. There a huge amount of pros, these are firstly I have found is that it is a contained file and not a package file for the saved projects. For sites I currently still have on RW I have a nervious anxiety when opening them when needing to make a change that I will have missing images or resources that will be lost or broken. It’s happened so many times that I dread opening a RW project file.
The new custom Interactions is amazing. If you get up to speed and creative with the process you will find that it negates the need for a huge library of stacks. This element in itself is well worth the upgrade or change.
The other game changer for Blocs is Volt, you are currently using Armadillo, I used to use that, you don’t have any cumbersome setup with a mySQL database as you do with Armadillo. Also you can have multiple blogs, whereas Alloy (which is/was excellent) you could only have one blog. The other great feature of Volt apart from being blog and page CMS is that you buy it once and can use it many times, you don’t have to buy single licences for each domain it is used on. Volt is a must purchase, it can do so much as is really well supported.
It will take you a short while most likely to get used to Blocs at first, it is similar, but there are a number of things done slightly different. It is like the lovechild of Foundation and Foundry. It has a great building system with blocs and brics similar to the tools in Foundry and then the vast majority of settings and changes are done with classes in the same way as Foundation 6. Think of it as being 75% Foundry and 25% Foundation 6.
Back to the custom Interactions, these are truly superb and are massive in there own right, just had to point that out again.
The only cons I find is that there are four stacks I would really love to have here as blocs/brics and that is PWA Pro, Configure, Cycledex and an Image Hotspot facility. Other than that Blocs and Volt you will enjoy after the initial learning curve.
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You could actually use several blogs with Alloy as long as you use different names for the blogs post folders and images folders 
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Wow, thanks for sharing that, @SpookyDoo.
Honestly, I’m approaching Blocs with a much more open mindset than I had before — and am really looking forward to Blocs and Volt CMS helping to bring back the joy of website building, as I mentioned earlier.
Your insights are all appreciated. So many more questions to ask you, and I will do so in time. Thanks for being here, and for the support! It means a lot.
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Hey - same here! RW + Foundry. Really disappointed when Foundry went belly-up with very short notice, and then watching the fighting between RW & Devs. Much nicer here, although the approach is so different it does take awhile to switch gears!
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That will be a marathon watch several times over… 
My recommendation is, if you have the time, to simply dive in. When you stumble, then look for solutions. Don’t try to learn first. That is a good approach, but learning software takes a lot of time.
Just dive in; Blocs in intuitive enough for most purposes. You will stumble along the way, it seems to be the nature of the app to nudge you towards learning something new. When you do, you have all the help you need in form of this community as well as the Blocs Academy.
Good luck in your endeavors, and welcome to Blocs!
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Thanks for the welcome, @phoenix1386 , and I appreciate the advice: I’ll try not to get too bogged down in learning everything about Blocs in one go, and just do it. I’m really eager to get started, in any case.
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