Reviews of Ghost

•1 review

I recently migrated off of WordPress and onto Ghost. The migration was flawlessly executed. Customer service is amazing, and my website is not only beautiful but screaming fast. The creator community is awesome and I’m learning so many new things about how to build a publication and community using best practices. What can I say, I’m in love. It’s well-supported and fundamentally sound.

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3yr ago

Reb Sadran

•3 reviews

We've been using ghost for over 2 years now and we regret the lockin. It does a lot and does many things well but even more so it does a lot of things very badly: - The mariadb support drop was a major complication. - The codebase is amateur with a lot of todo comments, non functional areas and - The admin API is very limited, meaning you have to reverse engineer backend API yourself to do more complex tasks. - The front end is slow and very difficult to extend. Theming is a real mess with a lot of hard coded areas that require very awkward patching. The front-end is making any long-term support almost impossible: - There's no version control for articles. There's no individual article backup for implementing your own version control and automation. The admin API is there but it's very difficult to use. - There's no way to extend or modify UI. For example there's no mass modification, tagging or any advance features that you'd expect from a long-term CMS. - It's really slow and most components are not compatible with the modern web. There's no predictable media naming for lazy preloading and other small issues that severely damages SEO potential. Honestly, the value provided by Ghost is overshadowed by things that are just broken or badly designed. We regret basing our project on it.

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1yr ago

Dennis Sinden

morningmate

•6 reviews

Ghost makes publishing content incredibly easy and comes with solid tooling, open source and truly enterprise grade, you can run a real news website on Ghost and it shows, also it's very pretty, stable and secure especially if compared to Wordpress.

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1yr ago

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John O'Nolan

Ghost

Maker

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Hey hunters! We're starting out down a brand new road today, excited to share our plans for bringing ActivityPub to Ghost with you - and hanging out in the comments to answer any questions that come up. We've been thinking and working on how to create a decentralised network in one form or another for about 8 years (before ActivityPub was a thing) — and I'm excited that we're now finally getting started with it.

@kasuncfdo thanks so much!

Chris Messina

Raycast

Top Hunter

So stoked to see this! Substack makes a big deal about how you can export your subscribers and content but increasingly the value is in social recommendation systems, distribution, and interactions. And lo, Substack is becoming a social network in its own right, having merely used email to bootstrap yet another private network. We've seen Post News and T2/Pebble fail, meanwhile Threads has embraced federation through ActivityPub and is contributing to the future of the social web. With Ghost adopting ActivityPub, publishers can take not only their subscribers elsewhere, but can interop with rest of the open social web, of which Mastodon is but one subset. Will @ProductHunt be next?

@producthunt @chrismessina Lots of platforms pretend to be open in order to get signups, then slowly start introducing features that are proprietary and prevent people from leaving - which was the plan all along! The way we approach builading things at Ghost has always been to quite simply do what we say we're going to do. No ulterior motive. No a16z in the background pulling strings for a higher valuation. No bullshit.

levelsio

eu/acc: European Accelerationism

Wow great work, do you think payments will start to also go this way with Ghost in the future? As ActivityPub is decentralized, maybe having some decentralized type payments fit into the future

@levelsio yeah! I think crypto is actually starting to get interesting for the first time now, because most people are no longer interested in it. Generally that signals the end of the hype phase and the beginning of practical utility - so I’m very interested in exploring how decentralised payments could work in Ghost in the future. There are all kinds of legitimate and interesting usecases which Stripe (mostly Visa/Mastercard) refuse to support

Todd Garland

HackToStart

@levelsio @johnonolan i am here for this

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