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Ghost 0.3 (Kerouac) Launches
- jergason 13y agoSite looks great and congrats on the release. This announcement suffers from the common problem of assuming readers already know what Ghost is. A few paragraphs down you mention Markdown and Jack Kerouac so I assume Ghost is related to text editing, but a sentence or two at the very top that explains Ghost would make this much better. Again, congrats on the launch.
- Touche 13y agoDoes a website have to summarize the purpose of the website in every article it contains? Could you have just looks at the address bar, typed in ghost.org and found out easily?
- MWil 13y agoI think not every article. Probably a good idea around release though...
- fancy_pantser 13y agoWhy not a link or something?
- robbles 13y agoI was confused by this as well. I don't think every page needs to have the product description and mission statement at the top, but I should at least be able to click on a logo to find out more. As is, I actually had to type in "ghost.org" manually into the URL bar because they don't have a link from their blog to their website.
- mu_killnine 13y agoI thought I'd mention that this is the release for Kickstarter backers only right now. Unfortunately, I didn't find out about this project until after the KS so I am out of luck for a few weeks. If you don't know what Ghost is, I suggest you take a look at John O'Nolan's post from a while back that precipitated Ghost: http://john.onolan.org/ghost http://john.onolan.org/ghost
- galapago 13y agoIs this the demo? http://blog.tryghost.org/ http://blog.tryghost.org/
- joeblau 13y agoThis is probably a better representation: http://ghost.onolan.org/ http://ghost.onolan.org/
- Touche 13y agoAwesome news. I'm assuming Ghost saves to a database. Hopefully it is written in such a way that it will be easy to plugin a static-generation module. Since this is Node.js I'm guessing you are using Express, and it would be great if backends could be implemented as middleware. Really looking forward to taking a look at the source!
- jmuguy 13y agoDid an email go out to backers with how to download the release (asking because I haven't received anything)? /edit scratch that, we got an email!
- MrBra 13y agoCan someone share his/her view on what made Ghost go up to £196,362 out of £25,000 goal on Kickstarter?
- jdc0589 13y agoIts a modern open source blogging platform using current popular technologies. Add in the simplicity of markdown based editing, what promises to be a good theme and plugin development experience, and I can see the attraction over stuff like wordpress and drupal. I could easily start a rant about PHP, so suffice it to say that the chance of a good new blog platform NOT WRITTEN PHP is a pretty huge deal.
- teamonkey 13y agoOut of interest, what is it written in?
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- perishabledave 13y agoJavascript on Node.js
- MrBra 13y agoIf I had to reply to my own question I would answer that perhaps this happened simply because of the huge number of bloggers around which for a big part are not that much tech savvy, making them more exposed to the appeal of a "better, easier than wordpress" blogging platform. I think that such big revenue came exactly from the stress devs put on the "simplicity feature". But I have this kind of feeling that I would like to be shown the part of the picture I am ignoring so to be proven wrong (which hasn't happened so far...).
- dylanhassinger 13y agoWordPress has jumped the shark
- slig 13y agoSuper nice domain name. Now they should buy ghost.com and build a hosted version. ;-)
- MAGZine 13y agobefore it was tryghost.com, so i'd say this is a certain improvement! i would be surprised if they didn't try to build a hosted version, wordpress style.
- mu_killnine 13y agoI believe it was actually http://tryghost.org http://tryghost.org
- tjohns 13y agoThey already announced there were plans to build a hosted version back when this was on Kickstarter. So, domain aside, that is supposed to eventually happen.
- iSnow 13y agoCongrats, this is one kickstarter that delivered, not to be taken for granted. Unfortunately I was late for the campaign, but once it hits the public, I'll give it a try. For those who don't know, it's a new blogging platform based on Node.js that tries to break away from the wordpress bloat and get blogging back to basics. And with great looks :)
- cabbeer 13y agoWhat are some good/ cost effective hosting solutions for node?
- alessioalex 13y agoDigitalOcean is your best options, host it yourself.
- baudehlo 13y agoHere's a decent list: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting
- timdorr 13y agoYou should be able to host on Heroku pretty easily: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-n... I've used it with a Hubot instance for our Hipchat room at the office and it works great.
- mpeg 13y agoWhy not let people buy it? Says the public release is in "a few weeks" - I'll probably have forgotten it exists by then, but now I would probably impulse pay $20 for early access. Also, is the code going to be in github?
- bchar 13y agoFrom the link: "In a couple of weeks, once we've ironed some bugs, smoothed some edges, and given those people a chance to try Ghost out... we'll be opening up Ghost to the public. The Github repository will go public, and everyone will be able to sign up for an account on Ghost.org."
- freeman478 13y agoIt seems the code is not yet public on github. Any idea when it will be ?
- adefa 13y ago"In a couple of weeks, once we've ironed some bugs, smoothed some edges, and given those people a chance to try Ghost out... we'll be opening up Ghost to the public. The Github repository will go public, and everyone will be able to sign up for an account on Ghost.org."
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- cabbeer 13y agoI'd love to try this, I'm just in the process of creating my blog with jekyll but this seems like a good alternative. Any chance I can contribute now and get on the list?
- graue 13y agoThis is only semi-on-topic, but it's really cool how Ghost is a non-profit organization: http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit and the post does a good job explaining what that means and why it was chosen. I definitely want to see more mini-Mozillas :)
- tarball 13y agoCome on guys, this is just money an promesses right now. Mini Mozilla seriously…
- oscargrouch 13y agoThis deserves a post by itself
- tigerweeds 13y agoCongrats! I've been waiting for this
- pearjuice 13y agoWordpress is plug and play on almost any webhost out there (some even have installers for it). Ghost is node.js which is barely supported by webhosting companies (you will most likely need a VPS or some specific node.js HaaS, at least). How will this not be a huge barrier to achieve the same traction Wordpress has?
- memla 13y agoThis already came up on their forum: http://ghost.org/forum/installation/23-is-there-a-quick-start-guide-for-running-this-on-a-basic-shared-hosting-account http://ghost.org/forum/installation/23-is-there-a-quick-star...
- unicornporn 13y agoIt WILL be a huge barrier. It think Ruby was one (of many) reason(s) Diaspora* never took off. RoR is mainstream compared to Node.js. In my opinion Node is a wacko choice for a non-profit company looking to create a broad appeal blogging software which will be a real alternative to WordPress.
- benatkin 13y agoNo, the lack of interest from hosting providers wasn't why ruby failed. It's due mostly to performance issues, some of which are due to its design and some of which are due to its implementation.
- trebor 13y agoHowever with Ruby 1.9 - 2.0 (2.1 will support generational gc, finally) the performance of Ruby (with ORM and non-c frameworks, like phalcon and Yaf) is drawing close to parity with PHP.[1] I think that what drove diaspora's failure is the lack of people who truly care to run their own nodes. There's a pretty steep "cost of acquisition" to get a single diaspora user. [1]: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7&test=db&l=3y8&f=zik0zj-zi8sfz-34v http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...
- shrklzrs 13y ago0.3.0 snapshot: https://mega.co.nz/#!71IC1LoT!QHVtaCL21w5-VzPBsSPdJRo3ayIeGuFJY2f0UfUWbVY https://mega.co.nz/#!71IC1LoT!QHVtaCL21w5-VzPBsSPdJRo3ayIeGu...
- Kudos 13y agoI wonder how many people are foolish enough to download and run unverified code like this.
- null_ptr 13y agoCongratulations, your blog site somehow manages to freeze and crash Firefox 24 Android each and every time I open it.
- currywurst 13y agoThank you for not forgetting RSS support ! And, wishing the 'Ghosts' all success !
- norswap 13y agoWhat sets Ghost apart from other blogging platforms or even from just pushing markdown files to github?