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> moved to Ghost this time-- its a better (simpler?) version of Wordpress For clarity, Ghost is not a fork of Wordpress. They're written in different languages

• everybodyknows 4y ago
  > Ghost is powered by a modern technology stack using Node.js https://ghost.org/vs/wordpress/ https://ghost.org/vs/wordpress/
• egypturnash 4y ago
  Ghost's overall initial pitch was definitely "Wordpress without the things people often dislike about Wordpress". It's definitely aiming at the same fast install/nice web UI space that made WP dominate the web for a long time.
• dspillett 4y ago
  Originally Ghost was a reaction to the problems some (many?) had with WordPress, it was deliberately trying to be less while doing specific things better (more efficient, easier to design/populate). I've not actually used it despite watching closely early on (I've not used WP significantly myself either, but know people who do/did, who I've helped out on some technical matters) mainly because my own making-content-worth-publishing projects have all come to very little thus far! From comments (on HN and elsewhere) in recent years I get the impression that Ghost is still a better optimised solution than WP for some common use cases, but has switched direction a bit and started to experience the feature creep that is one of WP's issues which Ghost aimed to avoid.