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Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by johnonolan »

nathcd wrote: post #12
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Heyo, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the kind words so far about 2.0 — it’s been a hectic few months! Earlier this year I talked about how we were shifting focus from simplicity to power - https://blog.ghost.org/5/ - and this is the first big release since that move. Whereas early versions were extremely opinionated and rigid, we’re now starting to bake in more flexibility and configurability to allow for a more di…

Hey John -- I recall seeing on your Mastodon account recently that you were interested in supporting ActivityPub for Ghost blogs. Any news on that front?

Yeah! Very interested - we have a highly voted topic for it over on the forum with some ideas, too. It's not a primary focus of the core team right now, but it's the sort of thing we'd be very interested in open source contributions for.

One of the main motivations for people using Medium is the network effect. I think it would be really cool if that could be recreated in a platform-agnostic, decentralised way :)

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by whichdan »

Yhippa wrote: post #13

This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?

Ghost is fantastic if you just need some simple features and a good Markdown editor.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by johnonolan »

johnchristopher wrote: post #16

> Multi-Language Sites > You can now configure your site to support multi-lingual content served across unique URLs with SEO-friendly, semantic templates. Now you can publish in English, German, Spanish or just about anything! About damn fucking time, pardon my language. Was a real deal breaker for some projects of mine.

Agreed

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by johnonolan »

Vinnl wrote: post #19
sciurus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're complaining that you can't tell what this HN submission is about from the top-voted comment alone, and you actually have to read the submission? I've seen people complain about the submission for a product announcement being unclear before, but hearing that complaint leveled at the comments is a new one.

I think it's not so much a complaint, as a suggestion to include a short recap of what the project is in the introduction of release announcements. I don't think OP was so much annoyed, as much as that they considered that it's a smart thing marketing-wise: those who don't know what the project is are unlikely to read on to the third paragraph. See e.g. Rust, which does this really well: https://blog.rust-lang.org/20…

Fair point, I probably could've included some useful context there - thanks for the tip!

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by ddebernardy »

dethswatch wrote: post #9
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Heyo, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the kind words so far about 2.0 — it’s been a hectic few months! Earlier this year I talked about how we were shifting focus from simplicity to power - https://blog.ghost.org/5/ - and this is the first big release since that move. Whereas early versions were extremely opinionated and rigid, we’re now starting to bake in more flexibility and configurability to allow for a more di…

From the Title to this post- no clue what this is? Is Ghost that hdd copy program from a while back? 1st paragraph of this post- still no idea what this thing is. Presuming it's the drive copy program. The rest of this post, still not clear. Probably not the copy program. Blog post: ".. a great open source publishing platform .." -- ok, it's like Wordpress. Gotcha.

John used to be a noteworthy contributor to WordPress. He went on to create a node.js based WordPress like software a decade or so ago, back when node.js was new and all the rage.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by arusahni »

Yhippa wrote: post #13

This is perfect timing for me. I'm interested in getting serious about starting a technical blog. I've been deciding between Ghost and WordPress. Does anyone have thoughts on that comparison?

I know this isn't one of those two options, but I'd recommend a static site generator (e.g., Lektor, Hugo, Nikola, Pelican, Octopress). I find myself wasting less time twiddling and configuring them and instead focusing on writing content (in Markdown or ReStructured Text, no less).

Additionally, I can then throw the content up on GitHub pages or AWS S3 and cut down on hosting costs.

Re: Introducing Ghost 2.0

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Post by johnonolan »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #27

Can ghost be used as a headless CMS? Been looking for an open sourced one based on nodejs

Yes it can, it's not a perfect experience (yet) but quite a lot of people are already using it in this way. We're also generally interested in a more decoupled approach to the front end, so you can expect this to improve further in future!
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