Has anyone preferred Specter (http://brislink.github.io/specter/) over Ghost? It seems a little less fleshed out than Ghost but also a lot less "commercial" as some have noted of the latter.
Ghost 0.4 Released
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Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
To paraphrase John O'Nolan in his original Kickstarter video for Ghost, Ghost is designed for users, not to please investors or potential acquirers. You can hear the original here: https://ghost.org/features/ starting around 2:05 in the video.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#43There'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…
>Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers".
I am wondering about this. I tried Ghost a few months ago, when digitial ocean was offering a free couple months if you tried it. I used it for a little bit, and found it much, much worse than wordpress for even simple blogging. I really like the ability to change things around easily if I don't like them.
What did I miss?
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#44I 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-... [1] https://ghost.org/about/
Not to go against what you're claiming, but to play devils advocate for a moment if you take a look at Invision Power Board[0] (now called IP.Board), they were once a free and open source bulletin board / forum system. In fact, their slogan was:
Apache, PHP and mySQL are all free, why should you pay for a bulletin board?[1]
They've since completely reversed their stance on that and now require payment for IP.Board. I'm sure there are other examples of this happening too, that's just the one that I remember most clearly when it comes to companies taking once free software and then charging for it.
[0]http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ [1]http://web.archive.org/web/20020912123518/http://www.invisio...?
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#45We've been using ghost for the startup, and I've been using it for my personal blog as well. I credit it with making writing more enjoyable, leading to more being written. By far my biggest issue was losing text, which should be fixed in 0.4. The joys of using alpha software. Best of luck to the Ghost team. I expect great things from them.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Bigger numbers means its better. It's science bro.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be wary of special-purpose editors. Generally devs are better served getting really, really good with one editor, and then extending it to meet their needs. Sublime Text, for example, has good Markdown syntax highlighting, and I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to build live preview, assuming that such a plugin doesn't already exist. That doesn't mean there isn't a place for a TTW editor - sometimes you just want…
I'm writing from a writer's perspective, not a developer's perspective. Which is not to say that there isn't value to what you're saying, but what I'm looking for is a good way to write quickly, not a code editor that also handles Markdown. I want to convince the writers I edit on a daily basis to use Markdown because of its clear benefits over WYSIWYG. Sublime Text I'm sure is great and I've heard great things about…
Wordpress.com now has Markdown [1]. Which has kept me there, so I'm guessing the timing cannot be coincidental, either.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#48Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a scotch not a bourbon
It's also not exactly a great choice marketing-wise as far as good sounding scotches that would impress a scotch drinker...
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You sound (rightly) incredulous, but don't forget that dBASE II launched at version 2 because 2 is better than 1.
Re: Ghost 0.4 Released
#50We've been using ghost for the startup, and I've been using it for my personal blog as well. I credit it with making writing more enjoyable, leading to more being written. By far my biggest issue was losing text, which should be fixed in 0.4. The joys of using alpha software. Best of luck to the Ghost team. I expect great things from them.
Just today I was thinking to myself how educated I have become within the WordPress development, I can now remove every single tab from the "New Post" dashboard and leave myself only with the editor.
It's a wonderful thing.