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> "It enjoys Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch" Its money is better spent on a decent malt. Is it as carefree with my resources as it is with its own? (Yep, it's a joke on HN).
Why would I spend money on a single malt when I get multiple for the same price with JW?
There'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…
The average user wants a nice-looking site without a lot of work. Ghost wants to market itself to regular users. It just seems like common sense that they'd get theme-makers on board—especially since it played such a huge role in the growth of Tumblr and WordPress, respectively.
It's pretty easy to ignore and gets people excited about the potential here, and considering that Ghost is so new, I don't think anyone is getting rich off of it right off the bat.
It's seriously harmless and arguably healthy that people are interested in spending time creating themes for such a young platform already.
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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.
Yeah, we all love new a shiny things, but that doesn't mean that at the moment that they appear they will going to be better that well established tools like WP. As i wrote before WP is at 3.8(pretty stable) and Ghost at 0.4(early alpha) the numbers never lie. But don't get me wrong, i would like Ghost to success but still needs more time.
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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.
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.
One of the fist things that I will do is to make it's editor(http://brislink.github.io/Abstract) easier to use by adding keyboard shortcuts for previewing and saving. I am also planning to distribute specter it via npm.
Also a new version of elastic search has come out and it has made taking backups so easy. I will have to experiment on that too.
Thanks once again.
There'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?
That it is still an alpha version you're using?
On the Kickstarter page [1] it's stated that it will be customizable and will support plugins. So give it some time I'd say.
[1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...
There'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…
Can you clarify?
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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.
That is absolutely irrelevant to the corruption claims of OP and doesnt answer my question.
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> 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.
Just one question. Is there API that can be used to integrate ghost with other apps?