Ghost Out, WordPress In (and back out again)

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Note: This post has been in my drafts since March 2021. The points relating to Ghost are still valid but I won’t be talking about Wordpress as I originally intended. Therefore the title of this post is a bit convoluted.

As you might have noticed the blogging platform has changed again. This was a snap decision after the release of Ghost 4.0. Ghost has moved from being a simple CMS for blogging to more of a CMS mimicking Substack or Medium where you have users who pay for your content. This is not what I want from my blogging platform, no one will ever want to pay for my random drivel. It has moved increasingly away from what it was when I moved to it and the new release was the last straw.

“Turn your audience into a business.” is the new tagline at ghost.org and that’s not what I want and that’s how all that UI and UX is setup to be. Email newsletters are now natively built into Ghost. I never want to email a single person who stumbles across my blog. I already feel bad that they read it at all.

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Ghost Out, WordPress In (and back out again)