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Ghost 0.4 Released
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Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#32There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machin…
> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding ecosystem may eventually be just as commercial as that of Wordpress, the main Ghost developers have the explicit goal of not getting corrupted by money.
Urgh. What is the exact meaning of that "corruption" you are speaking about?
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#33Just one question. Is there API that can be used to integrate ghost with other apps?
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#34There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machin…
Could you summarize some of the "superpowers"?
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#35There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machin…
Could you summarize some of the "superpowers"?
It's clean (for now).
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#36There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machin…
> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding ecosystem may eventually be just as commercial as that of Wordpress, the main Ghost developers have the explicit goal of not getting corrupted by money.
Wordpress don't allow non-GPL themes and plugins in their directories, there was an entire dragged-out debate about it. That is about as far away from "corrupted by money" as it gets.
Wordpress is the victim of being popular.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#37I just got their email.
But I was kind of annoyed by the usage of words.
'Free 0.4 upgrade'
It does imply, there are going to paid upgrades. If so, why they are making it look like a free open source product, while it is by all means is a commercial product.
It's not an issue for me. But If they want to live up to open source and free standards, then they should avoid this strategy.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#38There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machin…
Wounder how this would be a "wordpress with superpowers" since wordpress is in 3.8 and this is only 0.4.
Are you seriously comparing the version numbers of two completely different applications? That's like saying Apache is twice as good as Nginx because Apache is on version 2.4 and Nginx is only on 1.5.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#39I just got their email. But I was kind of annoyed by the usage of words. 'Free 0.4 upgrade' It does imply, there are going to paid upgrades. If so, why they are making it look like a free open source product, while it is by all means is a commercial product. It's not an issue for me. But If they want to live up to open source and free standards, then they should avoid this strategy.
You're reading way too far into this. There are no plans whatsoever to close-source or charge for the project (other than the paid hosting plans currently offered). That's plastered all over the kickstarter[0] as well as the website[1].
[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#40I think it's a very nice platform and I do not see why it has to be weaponised as a Wordpress competitor or why it should be labelled as having superpowers or lacking features.
The debate I see here is no different to the whining about Golang we've all seen recently. The bottom line is that you should know what your requirements are and thus you should know what the best solution will be. There should be no ideology about it.
Ghost is FOSS and if you do not like it, no one compels you to use it. It might seem like it is a commercial machine due to the fact, though that the software is free, it is far from a doddle to host freely. As far as I know, OpenShift is the only place to offer free, one-click hosting, and it doesn't exactly challenge paid hosts like Ghostify which offer straightforward FTP access for adding themes. That is not the fault of the platform.
For me, Ghost makes for the perfect personal blog where I just want to write some markdown and be done with it. For others I can see that it has limitations for some clients, and those limitations are intentional—just like those perceived in Golang. Ghost is there if you want it, not to supplant the ubiquitous WordPress.
All said and done, I'd still wait until 0.6 brings the eagerly awaited dashboard before I recommend it over alternative platforms.