johnonolan

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by johnonolan 1y ago
Hi! Founder of Ghost here. The way to cancel a trial is to go to the billing area in the product, then click on "Cancel" - red link at the bottom of the page. That instantly cancels the trial and deletes the account. If you don&#x
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by johnonolan 2y ago
> I don't think the point of the article is that everything was intentional. Author of the article here - that was exactly the point of the article.
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by johnonolan 2y ago
I think if you were to ask an ActivityPub absolutist about this (of which I am not one) the answer would be that you follow different things from different places, and it all balances out based on utility. So the idea is not that you have
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by johnonolan 2y ago
John from Ghost here, happy to answer any Qs if there are any. I know HN crowd tends to have pretty mixed feeling about the utility of ActivityPub, but we're pretty excited about it. Will it work out and be amazing? Don't know - b
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by johnonolan 3y ago
pretty much yeah
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by johnonolan 4y ago
No, we are not on the Mailgun affiliate program[1] [1]: https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/
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by johnonolan 4y ago
I mean I kind of wrote 2,000 words answering this in the post that these comments are about. We've always been focused on a single core usecase: Publishing, and that is still true today. WordPress diverted away from blogging and became
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by johnonolan 4y ago
100% of profit is reinvested each year and carried forward toward future investments in the product and the team
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by johnonolan 4y ago
Then we will support it in a few months. That's how LTS works. We can't just add support for Node 18 if all the upstream packages we depend on don't support Node 18.
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by johnonolan 4y ago
This is answered in some detail in the post :) Ghost uses Knex and Bookshelf, and can work with any database that is fully supported and made interoperable by those packages. So if anyone contributes to the upstream repositories, the Postgr
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by johnonolan 4y ago
I'm still on the fence about this one a bit! From a product PoV — god yes I wish we just used Laravel. We'd have been able to move about 8x as fast and get so much more built for users just because the ecosystem is so much better
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by johnonolan 4y ago
Hi HN John from Ghost here. Excited to launch 5.0 today, 9 years after Ghost first got built thanks to a popular post right here on Hacker News. We're hanging out in the comments today if you have any questions or thoughts!
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by johnonolan 4y ago
It doesn't say that anywhere - there are 0% payment fees on transactions in Ghost.
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by johnonolan 5y ago
Ghost powers several FP stories on HN every single day and this is the first time I've ever heard of it having an issue handling the load. Sounds like a T2 environment issue
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Hey everyone, John from Ghost here - this is our 9th time on Hacker News in 8 years, because of course Ghost originated from a Hacker News blog post that gave way to the original Kickstarter campaign. The platform has matured a huge amount
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Developers are not our primary target audience, but there's still a large "Developers" link in the resources section of the main navigation - as well as a GitHub badge in the footer on every single page. I think if we were &q
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by johnonolan 6y ago
We dropped Postgres (7 years ago) because pretty much nobody was using it, and it was causing lots of bugs and issues in our upstream ORM layer, which has great and working support for MySQL and SQLite. Ghost is open source, and we put out
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Founder of Ghost here - not sure how our business model (which has not changed) is unfriendly to self-hosting? Extensive docs and tools here: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ But let me know if there's anythin
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Not clear how those changes would make it more accessible or what problem you're actually trying to solve? There are lots of things we're working on improving but I promise you changing the programming language of any of those co
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Founder of Ghost here - would love to hear what parts you were hoping to make more efficient / if you have any suggestions :)
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by johnonolan 6y ago
"Ghost isn't easy to install" is an equally old meme which is trivial to disprove :) Self-hosting any CMS requires a degree of tech-savvy. Here's a comparison of Ghost vs WP in terms of time to install: https:/&#
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by johnonolan 6y ago
I'm curious, do you have any data backing your claim that Ghost 'tried and gave up'? Just wondering.
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Hey! John from Ghost here - yes, TheListener and TheViewer are already on Ghost, and TheBrowser is the next that will be migrating :) We're still in relatively early stages with our memberships and subscriptions features (they're
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Hey! John from Ghost here :) here's a direct comparison of setting up self-hosted WP vs Ghost, just as a point of reference: https://youtu.be/rMKNgV1gTHg
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Whether you choose to use clientside JS isn't related to any platform. Lots of people conflate this. They build ostensibly a totally empty scaffold site with an SSG and say "look how fast it is" - but the truth is if you buil
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by johnonolan 6y ago
Hi! John from Ghost here - Ghost has no bloated styles or scripts which are injected by default. You have full control of the frontend and can make it as minimal (or maximal) as you like. My answer to the OP would be: If you want to write (
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by johnonolan 7y ago
You connect your own Stripe account - so whatever fees are there are specific to your setup. They vary widely based on your country, the customer's country, currency and volume. The main difference with Ghost is that there are no addit
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by johnonolan 7y ago
Not permanently, but there were quite a few of us in Bali this year (I think 7 at one point) working from Tropical Nomad. Now we've all moved on again!
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by johnonolan 7y ago
It's immediately available to everyone, self hosted and hosted. Source is here: https://github.com/tryghost/ghost
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by johnonolan 7y ago
I'm a big webflow fan, would love to see if there's some way to use the platforms together :)

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