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Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by rrouse »

jmduke wrote: post #2

The domain 'tryghost' is something of a misnomer: this is a Kickstarter project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...

Yeah. The "Ready? Try Ghost" button at the end is just an ad for their kickstarter project.

They should have just stated what it was up front.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

#5

Post by spolu »

rrouse wrote: post #3
jmduke wrote: post #2

The domain 'tryghost' is something of a misnomer: this is a Kickstarter project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...

Yeah. The "Ready? Try Ghost" button at the end is just an ad for their kickstarter project. They should have just stated what it was up front.

Yep not cool

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by EwanToo »

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like :

"You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)."

So they won't be open sourcing it then if they're planning on not allowing people to add these features to the main code base?

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

#7

Post by Orva »

EwanToo wrote: post #6

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like : "You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)." So they won'…

"Ghost is an Open Source application", tiny github image link in footer and organization has no public repositories.. (https://github.com/tryghost)

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by joshmaker »

EwanToo wrote: post #6

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like : "You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)." So they won'…

The two features they list as "extra" by going with them are automatic backups and updates, both of which are hosting features, not software features.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by skattyadz »

EwanToo wrote: post #6

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like : "You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)." So they won'…

I don't think that's what they're saying at all. I think they're saying there are some features that are going to work best on an integrated hosting platform, just by their nature
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