Disappointed that Ghost created a custom posting API instead of adopting Micropub, which is a W3C recommendation. It’s okay to have Ghost-only APIs as long as you start with standards as a baseline. Now we have fragmented client apps.
@simonwoods @jemostrom To be fair to John and the team, that was the original intention of the platform — but they couldn't find a market for it. Hence the pivot to a publishing platform.
John and Hannah wrote about this in detail a year ago:
So the biggest takeaway after 5 years is that we have been moving, and will continue to move up market, toward professional users who value power and flexibility over ease of signup. This is where we can win compared to the competition. This is where Ghost comes into its own.
I'm a happy user of both Ghost and micro.blog, and this conversation feels a bit like Mummy & Daddy fighting! 😉