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Ghost 5.0 — Publishing, newsletters, memberships & subscriptions
Ghost 5.0 is the latest major release of Ghost, now with support for member analytics, multiple newsletters, custom tiers, simple design settings, and much more.
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@levelsio Yes! We've actually hired a whole new team to deal with the demand from this, and help people migrate.
A lot of people who start on Substack eventually end up moving to Ghost once their revenue passes around about $50k/ARR because at that point the difference in price becomes pretty huge, and it usually coincides with the time that publishers are going full-time on their new venture, and looking for more fine-grained control over their site and their brand.
Migrating is pretty straightforward, and leave all existing Stripe subscriptions in tact so there's very little disruption. There's a solid majority of people featured on https://ghost.org/publishers/ who started out on a different platform, first.
Love Ghost since Day 1. Such a delightful writing experience. Congrats on the launch, @johnonolan and team! 👏👏
Hi ProductHunt! 👋
It's been 9 years since the first version of Ghost launched on Kickstarter and today we're excited to launch the 5th major version of the platform.
Around this time last year, we launched the first public version of Ghost with memberships and subscriptions built-in natively. Ever since then, we've been sprinting to keep up with demand as the creator economy has taken off at full-tilt.
So, the major focus of this release has been expanding on that core foundation and delivering a set of features to help creators build successful indie businesses themselves.
You can click through to the post if you want the full run-down, but here's a quick overview of what's new:
📬 Ghost can now run *multiple* newsletters for different types of content, each with their own sender names, branding and subscription lists.
📈 We completely overhauled the dashboard to make it more powerful, with revenue, engagement and native email stats, at a glance.
💰 Custom subscription tiers make it possible to offer your audience more ways to become paid subscribers, and a native offers feature allows you to grow your revenue (still with 0% payment fees).
✍️ A host of new cards in the Ghost editor allow publishers to add GIFs, call outs, toggles, products, videos, audio, and much more to their content.
💅 We've released several official new open source themes and introduced new ways to customise brand settings for websites and newsletters, directly inside Ghost Admin.
➕ Plus, brand new developer tutorials, performance improvements, and much more
Full changelog here:
https://ghost.org/changelog/5/
Ghost is now a team of 31, with $5M annual revenue. Still completely open source, still non-profit, still remote, still decentralised, still growing, and still got love for the streets.
We can't wait to see what you do with 5.0 — and we'll be hanging out in the comments all day to chat ✌️
@johnonolan This is incredible! Definitely a step further from 4.0. The dashboard looks fantastic. Kudos to the team!
Congrats on the launch Ghost team!! Always impressive to see what a terrific product you can ship and constantly improve!
?makers Hi.❤️ Can you please change the Algolia configuration on the ghost/docs to make it easier to search the page and not the entire site, remove or change the ⌘+f, so that it behaves like normal on every other webpage? 🕵️
@llbbl If you just press cmd+f twice you'll get to the regular browser find feature. Same pattern as https://stripe.com/docs/api / Discourse / lots of other webpages
Audience analytics had been one of Ghost's very few weak spots — no more. This is big!
came here to upvote. using ghost heavily for years now, one of my favorites on producthunt
Simply the best website for creators, bar none. Our Podcast site runs on Ghost here https://onthechain.io
What an evolution! Having audited several Landing Pages for Ghost customers I can vouch the calibre of publications is much higher than any other platforms I deal with. Ghost has become the go-to for anyone wanting to build a sustainable publishing business. High Fives 🖐 (excuse the pun)
@robhope Love the pun, and love to hear this! 🤗 Showcased a bunch of the top creators and publishers on Ghost now with the updated site. The quality is honestly amazing
Congrats to the Ghost team on the launch! So glad the timing was finally right for Doist to switch over for hosting The Async Newsletter. Couldn't be happier with the editing/publishing UX 💆♀️
I love that you managed to add some great features without ruining the core experience like some platforms!
Amazing work to everyone at Ghost, well done 😃
This is all marvellous. I've been using Ghost for a year with the intention of turning a humble newsletter into a full membership programme. Being able to now run multiple newsletters is the one thing I've been waiting for and it looks amazing. Well done team!
@iainbroome Thanks so much Iain! Multiple newsletters was incredibly involved to make happen, but I'm super excited to see what everyone builds with it :)
I've been using Ghost for years and never regretted it! Also never regretted spending money on the Pro option before hosting the site myself, it was worth every cent spent to support the work of this incredible and independent team!
Keep up the great work, and thanks for all the incredible things your team allowed me and my friends to do. 🙏
Feature wise, I wondered if you had plan to add some minor statistics regarding the published articles?
It's been great to be able to see the open rate of newsletter and such, but I've always wondered why there was no option to see the number of read/click an article made, without having to rely on third party add-ons.
Also, from the editor, would it be possible to have an option for the panel (with all the article related informations, such as tag, meta data and so on) to be deploy by default?
I'm sure it's made this way so writer can focus on their work, but for some, having an option to ditch that extra-click to get the panel visible by default would be like heaven on Earth. 🙏
Great to see this!
> For developers: Ghost's production stack is now Ubuntu 20, Node 16, MySQL8
Wow, I like graphs and numbers - they don't lie :) The analytics seem nice. Congratulations on the release, thanks for sharing!
@vladislav_zhuravlev Truth behind 5.0: Actually we just wanted to play with numbers and graphs ourselves 😅
I love Ghost to bits. One of the best tools for the creator economy 🖤
It powers our newsletter Maker Stations where we feature high-quality, in-depth interviews with creators and makers about their workspaces.
As independent creators, all we need to do is hit the Publish button and see the audience grow. That’s it — Ghost has removed the barriers between our subscribers and us.
If blogging is a marathon… well, then Ghost gave us damn good trainers 👟
@ilyailford Maker stations is beautiful 😍 we just featured it on https://ghost.org/creators/
@ilyailford really, really love Maker Stations! The variety of different workstations is amazing. Does not do good things for my wallet 😅
@ilyailford Maker Stations often inspires me to wanna get a home and build a proper workspace 😅😅😅
Been there since day 1 (well, since the Kickstarter days). Love every single update and will also run this one asap (finally Members and Tiers with final, stable APIs)!
@s2imon Can't believe how may Kickstarter backers there are in this thread!! Thank you <3
@johnonolan yeah, the Kickstarter was held very shortly before me joining forces with iubenda (like a few days before, maybe it's time we finally looked into an integration ;)
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