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Ghost 0.4 Released
- mgingras 13y agoJohnnie Walker Blue Label is a scotch not a bourbon
- calinet6 13y agoIt's also not exactly a great choice marketing-wise as far as good sounding scotches that would impress a scotch drinker...
- eugeneross 13y agoIs there still no support for post types such as links, asides, etc.?
- shortformblog 13y agoGhost supports tags as classes if I'm right, which would allow you to do a pseudo-version of this pretty easy.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoI've just upgraded my blog; http://james.brooks.so http://james.brooks.so - it was surprisingly easy for a Node.js app. I'm really liking the static pages, it's just a shame that the default Casper theme doesn't list these in the header.
- ForFreedom 13y agoIs that hosted on Ghost or your server?
- jbrooksuk 13y agoIt's on my server, DigitalOcean droplet with a Ghost install by default.
- ForFreedom 13y agoAnd the DB? How is the load handling?
- jbrooksuk 13y agoIt's an SQLite 3 database, but Ghost allows you to export it to JSON for backing up. I've not had a big load in the few days I've changed from Octopress to Ghost, so I don't know how well it handles it.
- ForFreedom 13y agoDoesn't Ghost work on MySQL?
- yujingz 13y agoAgreed. I was like, i have to go to the static pages by typing the full url?
- philipDS 13y agoGhost is one of these things that you didn't know you needed until you have used it. I also have an Octopress blog running, which is great, but with the addition of static pages, I'll be switching to Ghost. I can also see Ghost becoming a decent competitor for Wordpress. For the purpose of blogging that is, because I remember reading somewhere Ghost didn't have any intentions competing with Wordpress.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoI used to use Octopress too, but when I tried out Ghost on a DO droplet I had to switch. I had started running into problems with generating my Octopress blog when I messed up my Ruby install. Also, although it was a good thing at the time, I didn't like not being able to write posts without my MacBook to hand. Ghost is nice, fast and easy to use. Static pages are really going to make it even better.
- Argorak 13y agoI had a similar issue, but came to the other conclusion: my blog is running on Middleman, and I kept it that way. My biggest problem with Ghost: lack of offline support. So while I can edit if from everywhere in a browser, I can only do that when online. I have a setup that immediately publishes my blog somewhere when Github receives a push (working through travis). I seperate two branches, one gets pushed to a staging area, one to the live site. I do the touch-up when I am at home. I usually want to write anywhere, but not necessarily publish anywhere. In the end, I just write my posts using any text editor I can find, be it Githubs direct editing. On the train or in a flight, I use an iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard (it works surprisingly well, except the odd looks) or my notebook to write the posts.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoYeah, the offline support is a bummer, but it's something I'm expecting to be remedied by the import/export function. An app which will handle this for you would be very cool!
- Xdes 13y agoI've been trying to use Ghost for a small project, but I've postponed it until the {{#has}} helper[1] is implemented. There is currently no simple way to display a subset of posts. [1]: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1574 https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1574
- hswolff 13y agoVery proud of this release and so glad that I was able to lend a hand in getting it out the door. Can't wait for 0.5 :D (and can't wait to find out its code name).
- jnardiello 13y agoThere's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll. Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine with the usual themes frenzy and marketplaces/agencies chasing customers. And i personally deeply dislike it as it's far from pushing a healthy dev environment.
- 28inch 13y agoIt is rather "Wordpress without superpowers"
- jbeja 13y agoWounder how this would be a "wordpress with superpowers" since wordpress is in 3.8 and this is only 0.4.
- RKearney 13y agoAre you seriously comparing the version numbers of two completely different applications? That's like saying Apache is twice as good as Nginx because Apache is on version 2.4 and Nginx is only on 1.5.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoBigger numbers means its better. It's science bro.
- DanBC 13y agoYou sound (rightly) incredulous, but don't forget that dBASE II launched at version 2 because 2 is better than 1.
- jbeja 13y agoThey are not completely different, they were made for a purpose(blogging), and the fact that Ghost was something that appear recently which is why it base features are things that the trend of today doesn't mean that suddenly a well stable project like WP can't whole a candle to it. Yeah, we all love new a shiny things, but that doesn't mean that at the moment that they appear they will going to be better that well established tools like WP. As i wrote before WP is at 3.8(pretty stable) and Ghost at 0.4(early alpha) the numbers never lie. But don't get me wrong, i would like Ghost to success but still needs more time.
- shortformblog 13y agoReally excited about Ghost—I've had a tendency to keep a close eye on various blogging platforms, and it's easily the one with the most potential right now. Part of it is the editor—I'm very particular about my Markdown editors, and it's one of the few web-based editors that gets close to Mou on the efficiency front. That said, the changes made here really go a long way towards making this the platform of choice for many. I'm keeping a close eye right now—I'm on Tumblr mostly due to my follower base there, but if Ghost evolves in a way that cuts away the cruft, it could seriously be a replacement for a lot of folks. Godspeed, Ghost team.
- atmosx 13y agoThanks for pointing out Mou. I didn't knew about it, it's good although a little bit distracting at first glance.
- javajosh 13y agoI'd be wary of special-purpose editors. Generally devs are better served getting really, really good with one editor, and then extending it to meet their needs. Sublime Text, for example, has good Markdown syntax highlighting, and I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to build live preview, assuming that such a plugin doesn't already exist. That doesn't mean there isn't a place for a TTW editor - sometimes you just want to edit something in place when you're in a pinch. Nothing wrong with that. But I would argue in that case that you'd probably want a true WYSIWYG editor, a la what browsers kinda sorta give you with contenteditable containers.
- shortformblog 13y agoI'm writing from a writer's perspective, not a developer's perspective. Which is not to say that there isn't value to what you're saying, but what I'm looking for is a good way to write quickly, not a code editor that also handles Markdown. I want to convince the writers I edit on a daily basis to use Markdown because of its clear benefits over WYSIWYG. Sublime Text I'm sure is great and I've heard great things about it, but I'm going to have a far harder time selling the journalists I work with on that than I am with something like Mou or iA Writer. WordPress' big weakness, IMHO, is that it has an editor which is not built for writing longer pieces and is poorly suited for editing. (Tumblr's big weakness is that it supports Markdown, but without frills.) That in my opinion is a huge issue—the words are basically the most important part of the editing process, and it means that in editing environments we're still stuck using Word or third-party tools like Editorially. What I see with Ghost is a real honest-to-God effort to focus on the editing tools first. We need more of that. It's where we spend most of our time on our blogging platforms. Why downplay that and instead put all of our energy into these inefficient WYSIWYG ContentEditable editors that nobody really, truly likes? Not everyone who reads HN is a developer.
- fuzzix 13y ago> "It enjoys Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch" Its money is better spent on a decent malt. Is it as carefree with my resources as it is with its own? (Yep, it's a joke on HN).
- brickmort 13y agoyess, static pages!! ghost was in dire need of that. Such a basic feature, yet you dont realize how much you want it until it's not available out of the box. Really happy to see the platform maturing nicely. Great job Ghost team!
- bigd 13y agoawww.. it don't like postgres anymore. And postgres is not supported for backups.. sigh. :( anyone has tips or tricks? or should I say byebye heroku since I can't use sqlite there?
- SmileyKeith 13y agoI've started hitting some Ghost based sites from HN links and I like the public facing side of it a lot. As other people have said I think I'll stick with Jekyll
- popee 13y agoJust one question. Is there API that can be used to integrate ghost with other apps?
- pmgarman 13y agoper the GitHub issue, apps should be in 0.5. With apps I'm sure you can write your own integrations with other platforms. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1474 https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1474
- frade33 13y agoI just got their email. But I was kind of annoyed by the usage of words. 'Free 0.4 upgrade' It does imply, there are going to paid upgrades. If so, why they are making it look like a free open source product, while it is by all means is a commercial product. It's not an issue for me. But If they want to live up to open source and free standards, then they should avoid this strategy.
- schneidmaster 13y agoYou're reading way too far into this. There are no plans whatsoever to close-source or charge for the project (other than the paid hosting plans currently offered). That's plastered all over the kickstarter[0] as well as the website[1]. [0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-... [1] https://ghost.org/about/ https://ghost.org/about/
- RKearney 13y agoNot to go against what you're claiming, but to play devils advocate for a moment if you take a look at Invision Power Board[0] (now called IP.Board), they were once a free and open source bulletin board / forum system. In fact, their slogan was: Apache, PHP and mySQL are all free, why should you pay for a bulletin board?[1] They've since completely reversed their stance on that and now require payment for IP.Board. I'm sure there are other examples of this happening too, that's just the one that I remember most clearly when it comes to companies taking once free software and then charging for it. [0]http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ [1]http://web.archive.org/web/20020912123518/http://www.invisionboard.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020912123518/http://www.invisio...?
- frade33 13y agoaah!! coincidentally i do own a license of IPB. I never knew it was free. I love IPB as a paid BB. My sole point was, If one's product is not 'commercial' then they shouldn't advertise it in a commercial fashion either. Because I can see, a lot IPB Free users would be pissed off, when they had made the switch.
- wanda 13y agoI think it's a very nice platform and I do not see why it has to be weaponised as a Wordpress competitor or why it should be labelled as having superpowers or lacking features. The debate I see here is no different to the whining about Golang we've all seen recently. The bottom line is that you should know what your requirements are and thus you should know what the best solution will be. There should be no ideology about it. Ghost is FOSS and if you do not like it, no one compels you to use it. It might seem like it is a commercial machine due to the fact, though that the software is free, it is far from a doddle to host freely. As far as I know, OpenShift is the only place to offer free, one-click hosting, and it doesn't exactly challenge paid hosts like Ghostify which offer straightforward FTP access for adding themes. That is not the fault of the platform. For me, Ghost makes for the perfect personal blog where I just want to write some markdown and be done with it. For others I can see that it has limitations for some clients, and those limitations are intentional—just like those perceived in Golang. Ghost is there if you want it, not to supplant the ubiquitous WordPress. All said and done, I'd still wait until 0.6 brings the eagerly awaited dashboard before I recommend it over alternative platforms.
- bttf 13y agoHas anyone preferred Specter (http://brislink.github.io/specter/ http://brislink.github.io/specter/) over Ghost? It seems a little less fleshed out than Ghost but also a lot less "commercial" as some have noted of the latter.
- brickcap 13y agoThanks for shout out to specter. Yeah it is not as polished as ghost but I am planning to make adjustments to it. One of the fist things that I will do is to make it's editor(http://brislink.github.io/Abstract http://brislink.github.io/Abstract) easier to use by adding keyboard shortcuts for previewing and saving. I am also planning to distribute specter it via npm. Also a new version of elastic search has come out and it has made taking backups so easy. I will have to experiment on that too. Thanks once again.
- alexandros 13y agoWe've been using ghost for the startup, and I've been using it for my personal blog as well. I credit it with making writing more enjoyable, leading to more being written. By far my biggest issue was losing text, which should be fixed in 0.4. The joys of using alpha software. Best of luck to the Ghost team. I expect great things from them.
- codecondo 13y agoJust today I was thinking to myself how educated I have become within the WordPress development, I can now remove every single tab from the "New Post" dashboard and leave myself only with the editor. It's a wonderful thing.