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A Year to The Day

by Naushad on 4/30/14, 2:32 PM with 52 comments

  • by drivingmenuts on 4/30/14, 2:58 PM

    Is there anything about Ghost that, intrinsically, makes it better than other blogging platforms?

    Seems to me it's just reinventing a many times reinvented wheel (except this one is hip and popular).

  • by snide on 4/30/14, 3:04 PM

    Just as an aside. If you're looking for something built in Node that's more of a CMS, my Kickstarter for Webhook recently hit it's goal. I really like Ghost as a blog service, but you might like our system if you need to build a more customized CMS experience for multiple editors.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1749618880/webhook

  • by dewey on 4/30/14, 2:59 PM

    > - Ghost Dashboard

    I'm really excited for that one, that was the reason I installed it in the first place only to realise it's not available yet.

  • by abeh on 4/30/14, 3:28 PM

    curious about what happened from current tagline and differentiating point from wordpress: 'Just a blogging platform.', to the statement here: 'Ghost has the potential to be far more than just a blogging platform' ?
  • by dang on 4/30/14, 4:19 PM

    Please don't rewrite titles unless they're linkbait or misleading. ("Ghost blogging platform, future." wasn't even intelligible.) The post's title, when combined with the site name, is fine.
  • by thkim on 4/30/14, 3:38 PM

    Ghost promised to be a simple blogging platform. It's simple if you use it as installed. It's not so straightforward to tweak and upgrade. I'm not very excited about it anymore.
  • by JamesBaxter on 4/30/14, 2:53 PM

    Does anyone have any recommendations for comment systems on Ghost? It looks like they themselves are using Disqus and Jeff Atwood is using Discourse (obviously) are there any other contenders?
  • by barsky on 4/30/14, 2:48 PM

    I'm really glad that Ghost is progressing nicely — I've used it for a small project, and it was a really nice experience.
  • by lnanek2 on 4/30/14, 8:38 PM

    I didn't think another blogging platform was really needed, but their stats and revenue make it sound successful. Congrats, they succeeded where I didn't think it could be done, or would have just hosted WordPress and tweaked it if I was doing it myself.