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Hi! Founder of Ghost here. The way to cancel a trial is to go to the billing area in the product, then click on "Cancel" - red link at the bottom of the page. That instantly cancel…

> I don't think the point of the article is that everything was intentional. Author of the article here - that was exactly the point of the article.

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I think if you were to ask an ActivityPub absolutist about this (of which I am not one) the answer would be that you follow different things from different places, and it all balan…

John from Ghost here, happy to answer any Qs if there are any. I know HN crowd tends to have pretty mixed feeling about the utility of ActivityPub, but we're pretty excited about i…

pretty much yeah

No, we are not on the Mailgun affiliate program[1] [1]: https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/

I mean I kind of wrote 2,000 words answering this in the post that these comments are about. We've always been focused on a single core usecase: Publishing, and that is still true …

100% of profit is reinvested each year and carried forward toward future investments in the product and the team

Then we will support it in a few months. That's how LTS works. We can't just add support for Node 18 if all the upstream packages we depend on don't support Node 18.

This is answered in some detail in the post :) Ghost uses Knex and Bookshelf, and can work with any database that is fully supported and made interoperable by those packages. So if…

I'm still on the fence about this one a bit! From a product PoV — god yes I wish we just used Laravel. We'd have been able to move about 8x as fast and get so much more built for u…

Hi HN John from Ghost here. Excited to launch 5.0 today, 9 years after Ghost first got built thanks to a popular post right here on Hacker News. We're hanging out in the comments t…

It doesn't say that anywhere - there are 0% payment fees on transactions in Ghost.

Ghost powers several FP stories on HN every single day and this is the first time I've ever heard of it having an issue handling the load. Sounds like a T2 environment issue

Hey everyone, John from Ghost here - this is our 9th time on Hacker News in 8 years, because of course Ghost originated from a Hacker News blog post that gave way to the original K…

Developers are not our primary target audience, but there's still a large "Developers" link in the resources section of the main navigation - as well as a GitHub badge in the foote…

We dropped Postgres (7 years ago) because pretty much nobody was using it, and it was causing lots of bugs and issues in our upstream ORM layer, which has great and working support…

Founder of Ghost here - not sure how our business model (which has not changed) is unfriendly to self-hosting? Extensive docs and tools here: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ But le…

Not clear how those changes would make it more accessible or what problem you're actually trying to solve? There are lots of things we're working on improving but I promise you cha…

Founder of Ghost here - would love to hear what parts you were hoping to make more efficient / if you have any suggestions :)

"Ghost isn't easy to install" is an equally old meme which is trivial to disprove :) Self-hosting any CMS requires a degree of tech-savvy. Here's a comparison of Ghost vs WP in ter…

I'm curious, do you have any data backing your claim that Ghost 'tried and gave up'? Just wondering.

Hey! John from Ghost here - yes, TheListener and TheViewer are already on Ghost, and TheBrowser is the next that will be migrating :) We're still in relatively early stages with ou…

Hey! John from Ghost here :) here's a direct comparison of setting up self-hosted WP vs Ghost, just as a point of reference: https://youtu.be/rMKNgV1gTHg