It’s a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That’s mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience migrated over when ss went rotten.
Comment on Ghost 6.0 releases next month with ActivityPub support
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What is Ghost?
Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I’m saying?
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s like WordPress, but good.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 months ago
What’s wrong with wordpress
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Besides having an ancient codebase and encouraging poor programming habits, it’s creator abandoned the project for months after an embarrassing public spat with another company. Plus its UX has gotten consistently worse over the last several years. It may have gotten more powerful, but also much less usable.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I remember using it like 15 years ago, and it was pretty shit back then too.
Cochise@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I had looked into it for my running club because it had built in mailing lists through subscribers and such but it def feels like a CMS geared toward a commercial entity. I’m sure it’s great as just a blog setup but it just wasn’t what i was looking for.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!
There’s just too much of what we in Sweden would call “word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
Cochise@lemmy.eco.br 9 months ago
Ghost is a CMS. It spits HTML.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks, but the point is that this should be more clearly labeled and explained on Ghost’s website, not by someone in a Lemmy comment. No offense. ❤️
Sergio@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.
This is a great way to describe LLM-based AIs. I’ma use it.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
😆👌
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Thats a very poor description imo
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What is?
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It’s a blogging / newsletter tool. The article I linked to is run on Ghost. So this is what it looks like.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then it should say that clearly somewhere on the site. 🤷♂️
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It looks like a WordPress competitor. I didn’t check what it’s written in.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
Dremor@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Basically, a blog/website platform, similar to Wordpress, but without the drama.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve gotten lots of responses, but the clear and simple info should be on the site itself rather than here. 👍