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I like Ghost, I have been watching it closely and rooting for it. However, it just had a bunch of nasty issues that made it frustrating to put up with. I last c
by aleem 13y ago
I like Ghost, I have been watching it closely and rooting for it. However, it just had a bunch of nasty issues that made it frustrating to put up with. I last checked a month or so back and these are the ones I remember off-hand:
- Undo/redo is badly broken. If you add an image via ![] there was no undoing beyond that point. Undo was broken in a few other ways too.
- Browser spellcheck didn't work. This was a big one for me and for anyone who writes a lot.
- The preview doesn't correctly sync with the markdown editor if you add a bunch of images. This got very frustrating because the auto-sync sometimes rendered the preview-pane useless. I can't fathom there isn't a manual override until this gets fixed. It forces the writers to contend with a bug (that still exists) each time they edit a post with images.
If you build your blogging platform on top of Markdown you should be ready to work within it's bounds (you can't align images) or let the community write MD extensions (leading to fragmentation and something that will eventually not be MD). Or the third alternative is to have a new flavour (ala GFM) that's maintained by the Ghost team itself with very minor modifications. In light of that, I would really propose the following amendments:
- Markdown doesn't align images. That's a severe limitation.
- Markdown still sucks at linked images. Try telling a novice to write:
[![]()]()
At least I think that's what it is. This is an issue with markdown but I think Ghost should take a few liberties as a favour to the rest of us.
- For image alignments, I would propose the following:





...
- And for linked images and images/links in general I would propose:

(href-link)
[alt](href-link)
!(image-link)(href-link)
!(image-link)