I wonder if taking the JAMStack route won't prevent you to become a real alternative to Medium by making ActivityPub (federation) implementation harder ?
Ghost 3.0
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Re: Ghost 3.0
#62Ghost is okay. My blog runs Ghost. I've been using Ghost from about when it was first released, v.09 or something. I am now planning on moving towards something more static and simpler. Ghost started as a simpler alternative to WordPress, but slightly more powerful than Hugo/Jekyll/etc. It now seems to just be a WordPress clone written in JS instead of PHP. It's still fine and works well... but, I can't see a reason…
I’m not sure how anyone can say in good faith that Ghost is “just a Wordpress clone”. Even a cursory walkthrough if the dashboard shows this to absolutely not be the case.
Re: Ghost 3.0
#63I wonder if taking the JAMStack route won't prevent you to become a real alternative to Medium by making ActivityPub (federation) implementation harder ?
Watch this space :)
Re: Ghost 3.0
#64Native comment system yet?
Re: Ghost 3.0
#65Hi 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…
Do you have any plans to offer a solo professional type plan? ~$350/year and up is quite a lot more than I can justify for what I would use this for. Something like Automattic's Premium plan ($8/month) for a managed blog with a subscription system like this would be an easy sell for me.
I understand if that's a hard no. You seem to be aiming at people who are or plan to be big time enough to hire people to help. Getting people in who might head that way so they have an easy upgrade path might be good though. If I were the kind of person Patreon's top plan aims at, any Ghost plan would be an easy sell, but even thinking about that is a long way off for me.
Re: Ghost 3.0
#66Great to see a new major release! I have used Ghost in a couple of projects, and I am always impressed with the functionality & the flexibility to use it how you want.
The built in editor and admin panel is great, but the real sweetness comes from the REST API. The ability to integrate into any custom website is fantastic!
Re: Ghost 3.0
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still receive a salary, and as far as I know there are no limits on what you can pay yourself. However, you must have a predefined salary and you are audited regularly to ensure there isn't fraud. However, outside of the overhead (salaries, office, servers, etc) any further profits have to be reinvested into the business. This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to t…
> This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to take home the extra million. It has to go back into the business. I wonder where the line is drawn on that. For example, can the CEO buy a house to live in and then claim it's investing in the business because that's where he works remotely once in a while? Also on the salary itself, do you pay regular income tax on that (separat…
Yes, you pay income tax.
Re: Ghost 3.0
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can still receive a salary, and as far as I know there are no limits on what you can pay yourself. However, you must have a predefined salary and you are audited regularly to ensure there isn't fraud. However, outside of the overhead (salaries, office, servers, etc) any further profits have to be reinvested into the business. This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to t…
> This means that if they get 5 million dollars and only spend 4 million, no one gets to take home the extra million. It has to go back into the business. I wonder where the line is drawn on that. For example, can the CEO buy a house to live in and then claim it's investing in the business because that's where he works remotely once in a while? Also on the salary itself, do you pay regular income tax on that (separat…
Yes, each salary is taxed normally. Then, there are laws against non-profit executives enriching themselves[0]. The government watches this very closely.
Also, public non-profits must release regular reports on their finances. So, contributors can decide for themselves whether the funds are being used appropriately. That's the basis for sites like https://www.charitynavigator.org [1] and https://www.guidestar.org
One particularly important metric is how much the organization spends on overhead vs how much is spent directly furthering their cause.
[0] Religious organizations seem to play by a different set of rules, but thats neither here nor there.
[1] A non-profit is not necessarily a charity, but this gives you an idea of how both can be evaluated.
Re: Ghost 3.0
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Look at the wikipedia salaries for example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
Wow those are some pretty high salaries for what I expected in a non-profit business. My Wife works in a non-profit agency and makes significantly less money than I do, but then again she is a social worker. She also gets far more time off than I do so there are perks I suppose.