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Can someone share his/her view on what made Ghost go up to £196,362 out of £25,000 goal on Kickstarter?

by MrBra 13y ago

jdc0589 13y ago
Its 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 ago
  Out of interest, what is it written in?
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    [deleted]
  - perishabledave 13y ago
    Javascript on Node.js
- MrBra 13y ago
  If 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 ago
WordPress has jumped the shark
bowerbird 13y ago
the project was spearheaded by a guy who is well-known, having worked a long time in the wordpress community. plus it tapped into simmering uneasiness that wordpress has now overgrown itself into a convoluted bloated mess. i also happen to believe that the 2-pane display, with light-markup input on one side and output on the other, is the _best_ user-interface for light-markup, but that likely occurs subconsciously (if at all) for most people. finally, of course, once a kickstarter project goes viral, it gets even more attention because people talk about that. -bowerbird

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Can someone share his/her view on what made Ghost go up to £196,362 out of £25,000 goal on Kickstarter?

by MrBra 13y ago

Can someone share his/her view on what made Ghost go up to £196,362 out of £25,000 goal on Kickstarter?

jdc0589 13y ago
Its 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 ago
  Out of interest, what is it written in?
  - deleted 13y ago
    [deleted]
  - perishabledave 13y ago
    Javascript on Node.js
- MrBra 13y ago
  If 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 ago
WordPress has jumped the shark
bowerbird 13y ago
the project was spearheaded by a guy who is well-known, having worked a long time in the wordpress community. plus it tapped into simmering uneasiness that wordpress has now overgrown itself into a convoluted bloated mess. i also happen to believe that the 2-pane display, with light-markup input on one side and output on the other, is the _best_ user-interface for light-markup, but that likely occurs subconsciously (if at all) for most people. finally, of course, once a kickstarter project goes viral, it gets even more attention because people talk about that. -bowerbird