@jack I couldn’t agree more with what everyone in this thread is saying. Ghost was fun for a little bit, but mostly it just felt overpriced. Spend any time in the forums and you’ll probably see two things:
- There are some genuinely decent people there who want to make cool things.
- Some owners/administrators that are either condescending or altogether unhelpful.
Luckily, the second one is fairly rare, but the fact that it happens at all is frustrating. It’s nicer to be here—I’ve never seen that tone from @manton, or anyone else for that matter.
Their big push towards memberships and being a “platform for professional publishers” (despite their previous language) feels unpleasant to me. I get the impression that they saw the meteoric rise of services like Substack, realized how much money they could make from large companies, and stopped caring about the hobbyists, i.e., many of the users who got them to where they are now.