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Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by axxl »

blfr wrote: post #59

I was just thinking about ghost a few weeks ago! I used to use Ghost way back when and wanted to get back to it but the installation process has become really complex and brittle. I'm a little ashamed to admit that it beat me. The cli tool is very rigid. For some reason you cannot simply run ghost as the user ghost but you need some other user with sudo privileges to create the ghost user during the installation proc…

Digital Ocean has a one click install that configured a ghost blog and takes care of everything for you.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by alexktz »

johnonolan wrote: post #3

Heyo, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the kind words so far about 2.0 — it’s been a hectic few months! Earlier this year I talked about how we were shifting focus from simplicity to power - https://blog.ghost.org/5/ - and this is the first big release since that move. Whereas early versions were extremely opinionated and rigid, we’re now starting to bake in more flexibility and configurability to allow for a more di…

I host several self-hosted blogs using Ghost 1.0 in Docker. When can we expect 2.0 released via Docker please?

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by blfr »

axxl wrote: post #61
blfr wrote: post #59

I was just thinking about ghost a few weeks ago! I used to use Ghost way back when and wanted to get back to it but the installation process has become really complex and brittle. I'm a little ashamed to admit that it beat me. The cli tool is very rigid. For some reason you cannot simply run ghost as the user ghost but you need some other user with sudo privileges to create the ghost user during the installation proc…

Digital Ocean has a one click install that configured a ghost blog and takes care of everything for you.

I'm so old I still have a multi-purpose personal server instead of separate VPS/containers for everything.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by fusiongyro »

Vinnl wrote: post #14
just_observing wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Also: Let me be the first to say that I can’t believe there’s still no Postgres support, which is absolutely outrageous." Postgres is open source. Why do they owe you? If it matters, write the code.

It's a joke, the context of which is that they removed Postgres support from Ghost a while ago, and people keep complaining about it. See: https://blog.ghost.org/dropping-support-for-postgresql/

I have to give him credit, I was here to complain about it.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by benfrain »

I’m amazed no-one has mentioned the lack of a built-in commenting feature.

The makers of Ghost are here appreciating the benefits of comments but sadly they haven’t made there way to Ghost yet.

I’d love to move to Ghost from Wordpress but commenting is essential.

And no. 3rd party Garbage like Disqus isn’t a viable option.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by kup0 »

wlesieutre wrote: post #39
WesleyLivesay wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.

I remember when they launched with a $5/month hosting plan, then when they raised it to $10. Just looked at the pricing page and the minimum is now $36/month (or $29/month billed yearly). That's some serious sticker shock. Is it that much better than say, Squarespace?

These were my thoughts exactly. Maybe it just hasn't made business sense for them to host cheaper plans, since it's available to self-host. But you're right, even against competitors (Squarespace) it's quite a bit more expensive. Not sure what justifies such a gap.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by marc_io »

undseg wrote: post #48
varunramesh wrote: post #38

I would love to see an official static site mode for Ghost (and Wordpress). That way we can get both a nice authoring experience and the low cost/security of S3 hosting.

This is always the first thing I look for in the new version announcements for big blogging platforms. Would be amazing if I didn't need to know a completely separate technology and/or hack together bridges/site "staticizers" in order to have a quite basic functionality (the site be 100% static when no back-end dynamic interaction is needed). That said, there are third party plugins for WordPress that do this. Don't…

Check out Publii, then (Open Source too). It's quite similar to WordPress in a lot of ways, but it's a desktop app that uploads static files. https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by gkoberger »

benfrain wrote: post #65

I’m amazed no-one has mentioned the lack of a built-in commenting feature. The makers of Ghost are here appreciating the benefits of comments but sadly they haven’t made there way to Ghost yet. I’d love to move to Ghost from Wordpress but commenting is essential. And no. 3rd party Garbage like Disqus isn’t a viable option.

A lot of blogs do just this... use Hacker News, Reddit or Twitter as their comments. Comments on blogs have become less relevant as time goes on.

That being said, there are some decent Open Source Disqus clones out there you could probably use!

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by FlipperBucket »

sciurus wrote: post #10
dethswatch wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the Title to this post- no clue what this is? Is Ghost that hdd copy program from a while back? 1st paragraph of this post- still no idea what this thing is. Presuming it's the drive copy program. The rest of this post, still not clear. Probably not the copy program. Blog post: ".. a great open source publishing platform .." -- ok, it's like Wordpress. Gotcha.

You're complaining that you can't tell what this HN submission is about from the top-voted comment alone, and you actually have to read the submission? I've seen people complain about the submission for a product announcement being unclear before, but hearing that complaint leveled at the comments is a new one.

> You're complaining that you can't tell what this HN submission is about from the top-voted comment alone

Nope. johnonolan's post is top and it explains about as much as the site. Not much at all. There's an animated thing going on a page break down from the top, but the site is so jam-packed with marketspeak and vagary that it shouldn't be surprising. Also, I still don't know what it is. Compare that with Codesandbox (also on HN) which is straightforward.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by cyberferret »

johnonolan wrote: post #3

Heyo, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the kind words so far about 2.0 — it’s been a hectic few months! Earlier this year I talked about how we were shifting focus from simplicity to power - https://blog.ghost.org/5/ - and this is the first big release since that move. Whereas early versions were extremely opinionated and rigid, we’re now starting to bake in more flexibility and configurability to allow for a more di…

Question: Has the (Electron) Ghost app been updated to work with Ghost 2.0 as well? i.e., am I going to break things if I update my server to Ghost 2.0 then try to publish new posts using the app?
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