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Re: Ghost — rethinking WordPress

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Post by johnonolan »

twodayslate wrote: post #2

Why is all the text a giant image? (That aside, the system looks great)

Just because it's a rough concept, and I wanted to put it out as quickly as possible rather than delaying by procrastinating about coding a layout. I actually stole got the idea for making it a big page of images from the original .Mail concept page. If there's interest - of course we could put something more professional (and machine readable) together!

Re: Ghost — rethinking WordPress

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Post by krogsgard »

These are some beautiful concepts by John. However, I think it's also worth noting that just about everyone that works with WordPress wants to see the interface itself be simplified, even if most of us want to retain its flexibility as a CMS.

Here are some related notes from Matt Mullenweg on a "radically simplified WordPress" http://ma.tt/2012/05/simpler/

I'd like to see something like Ghost as a step two of Matt's thoughts, rather than a fork or separate project.

Re: Ghost — rethinking WordPress

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Post by csomar »

johnonolan wrote: post #4
twodayslate wrote: post #2

Why is all the text a giant image? (That aside, the system looks great)

Just because it's a rough concept, and I wanted to put it out as quickly as possible rather than delaying by procrastinating about coding a layout. I actually stole got the idea for making it a big page of images from the original .Mail concept page. If there's interest - of course we could put something more professional (and machine readable) together!

I don't think it's justifiable. Lots of people can't read from an image. (For various reasons).

I ended up closing the page because the font size is too small.

Re: Ghost — rethinking WordPress

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Post by ck2 »

The whole page is images, and it's a non-existent product, it's just a theory/proposal.

Buried in the text is it would be a fork of wordpress.

Net is filled with that sentiment, but it never takes off:

http://www.google.com/search?q=fork+wordpress&tbo=1&...

If you want to replace wordpress you need a modern rewrite, not a fork.

The #1 problem of wordpress (among many) is it loads every darn thing on every darn page and it's now a godzilla of a program so it's becoming a huge nightmare. A cache miss in WordPress on a busy server is a horrible, horrible thing.

You cannot escape that problem by a fork.

Re: Ghost — rethinking WordPress

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Post by paulsilver »

johnonolan wrote: post #4
twodayslate wrote: post #2

Why is all the text a giant image? (That aside, the system looks great)

Just because it's a rough concept, and I wanted to put it out as quickly as possible rather than delaying by procrastinating about coding a layout. I actually stole got the idea for making it a big page of images from the original .Mail concept page. If there's interest - of course we could put something more professional (and machine readable) together!

I'd guessed this was to get something out the door quickly. It would be useful if you linked the FAQ image as a mailto to your e-mail address, or just through to your Twitter account. Having to type those out manually is a bit annoying.
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