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Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by manigandham »

nickjj wrote: post #20
83457 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization "A nonprofit organization, also known as a non-business entity,[1] not-for-profit organization,[2] or nonprofit institution,[3] is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view. In economic terms, it is an organization that uses its surplus of the revenues to further achieve its ultimate objective, rather than distributi…

That's still very confusing. Surplus sounds like anything beyond hosting costs to run the service, but the hosting costs is likely no where near 5 million dollars so a majority of it is surplus. Does that mean no one gets a salary or is a salary part of the costs to run the business instead of being a "member"? If salaries are included who dictates what the income tax exempt salary is? I'm not trolling either. What y…

Think of non-profits as any other business - except there are no owners. No shares, no voting. Nobody can say they own 50% of this company and so are worth X on paper because of the value.

Everything else operates the same. People have jobs and get salaries. The company sells things and makes revenue. It can make profits if it makes more than it spends. Nonprofits can have millions sitting in their account but that money doesn't belong to any person because there's no ownership, and usually the bylaws and govt regulations mandate they reinvest it into the business aggressively.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by artpi »

yodon wrote: post #19
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old). I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy: - The new membership sy…

Is there anything more you've published on the membership system, particularly as it relates to developers? I often feel like what I need most is an identity system for my users that's nicely coupled to a billing and CMS system, and the CMS providers seem like the ones best equipped to offer that (eg Identity/signin/authorization is really the core poorly addressed problem today). Shopify has commerce and blogging bu…

I know John's opinion about WordPress, but it sounds like you are looking for Woocommerce.

- Open Source - Thriving plugin ecosystem - WordPress.com can host it for you for $300/year and it will take any traffic you throw at it - It has full advantage of WordPress which is the most popular CMS on the planet

Re: Ghost 3.0

#104

Post by artpi »

Fantastic work John!

The membership feature looks amazing and I honestly am very impressed by your landing page since I work on something a bit similar :).

The Stripe Billing integration sounds exciting, but I am curious about the 0% transaction fees. Stripe usually takes 2.9%+30c on charges and Stripe Billing costs 0.4$ (free for the first $1M so we can ignore that).

Did you negotiate some kind of a special deal with Stripe or the 0% means that YOU don't take additional fees, but Stripe fees are still there?

Re: Ghost 3.0

#105

Post by akerl_ »

Aeolun wrote: post #83
akerl_ wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this comment would be totally complete without the first 5 words, which serve to make it condescending. Part of the goal of this community is for its participants to learn things they don’t know; the tone implied by the intro to your comment makes it seem offensive that somebody wouldn’t realize US non-profit status still allows for salaries and benefits for their staff. https://xkcd.com/1053/

I think that to a point this is caused by the attitude in OP’s own comments. While it would be nice if it was possible to completely ignore it, I don’t think that’s realistically possible.

Perhaps I’m overly optimistic. I’m also optimistic enough to believe that the comment I responded to wasn’t aiming to be condescending; the phrasing was the kind of thing that could very well have sounded jovial in speech among friends. I tend to think that’s the more common failing here: people type the way they’d speak if they were having a chat at the pub after work, and a lot of nuance burns off in the speech-to-text conversion.

In any case, the site guidelines ask us to counteract this by assuming good faith, and responding to the strongest interpretation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by scrollaway »

jonny383 wrote: post #56
AndrewDucker wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what your purpose was in leaving this comment? What were you trying to add to the conversation?

Asking if people actually still use Ghost?

And what do you expect the answer to that question to be? They just released a new major version and announced $5MM revenue in the same post.

Seriously, think for a second and tell me what you expect the answer to be.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#107

Post by johnonolan »

cpr wrote: post #29
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old). I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy: - The new membership sy…

Fantastic work, John. I've long wanted to build a web site just to use Ghost. ;-) If you could figure out some way to integrate tightly with Webflow (the world's best html/css codeless site builder), that would be an absolute killer and I'd be all over it in a second (as would many others). I suppose the problem there is that Webflow wants to be its own CMS (naturally), but it's somewhat crippled by being a closed so…

I'm a big webflow fan, would love to see if there's some way to use the platforms together :)

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by johnonolan »

8458e112e7b2 wrote: post #7
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old). I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy: - The new membership sy…

Congrats on the release and hope Ghost is even more successful now with all the added features. Any idea when 3.0 will be available to self-host?

It's immediately available to everyone, self hosted and hosted. Source is here: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by beardbound »

dspillett wrote: post #33
saassucks wrote: post #14

Another piece of software to nickel-and-dime you. Yay!

Or you could install it yourself for nothing (other than your time and hosting costs, of course, but if you have the time spare and a server/VM with available resource already...): https://ghost.org/docs/setup/

Thanks for the comment. I honestly didn't consider trying it on a VM. I've been thinking of migrating my blog off of wordpress since I don't really like my old design and the actual writing interface isn't great. However I didn't want to have to mess with getting it on my AWS instance if it wasn't going to work.

I'll stage it up locally and see how I like it. I used ghost for a while in the 1.0 days, but I had an issue with an upgrade and I ended up switching back to wordpress. I also was super into single pane transparent design at the time. These days I just want my writing to be easy to read and navigate. Cheers, and thanks again.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by WhiteOwlLion »

mkr-hn wrote: post #73
sdan wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self host it if you can. I do at https://sdan.xyz/blog and https://sdan.xyz/essays and it works flawlessly regardless of visitors/staff members/etc. Obviously by paying Ghost to host it for you is a bit pricey since they have to make a profit as well, but the amazing thing is that the whole thing is open sourced for people like us to self host (I wrote a post about how I self host a bunch of stuff including ghost: ht…

I'd rather pay them to do it. The last time I self-hosted, it was WordPress, and the temptation to tinker was too great and distracted from the actual goal of having a blog.

Ghost used to be available on Softaculous but the requirements changed: https://www.softaculous.com/news/scripts/ghost-support-to-be...

That's likely one of the biggest reasons you can't get a shared host to run this.

WordPress is still installable via Softaculous.

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