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by therealmarv 2436 days ago
looks nice. Especially like the membership module and will definitely look more deeply into integration with nuxt.js (wow).

One thing I don't like is that the membership api seems deeply integrated with Stripe only. That's okay for a start but in many countries in this world Stripe is not available (for me it's the new PayPal. E.g. I'm based in Cyprus and Stripe will not work here although it's EU) and I would welcome a better flexibility or plugin system for other payment providers:

https://github.com/TryGhost/Members/tree/797bab5d9218d7796f0...

Are there any plans for that? Do you think it is easy to integrate other payment providers in future?

UPDATE: ok, I've seen your website FAQ https://ghost.org/docs/members/faq/#can-i-use-other-payment-... I will not support a one payment gateway blog membersite. Sorry Ghost.

Stripe censorship excludes basically (beside regions) also many topics. Thinking about writing about intimate topics, erotica or health? Good luck in using Stripe with that.
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johnonolan 2436 days ago
This is a first version. We're certainly planning to add more payment options, including decentralised ones
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Teichopsia 2436 days ago
Yes, but when? Stripe has been saying the same thing. They will support more countries, and yet, three years later they have yet to support many countries.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that a country can not be supported magically. What I'm against are these comments that are written with (what I believe to be) the best intentions.

But then it's posted, and the person who read it, years later is left with a bad taste in his/her mouth.

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disordinary 2436 days ago
It's open source, there's nothing stopping you from integrating it with the payment platform of your choice and contributing the code back to the project.
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Teichopsia 2435 days ago
It is! Oops... I just became that guy :P

But in my defense, it was a general sentiment and not directed to any - one - individual - or company.

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ric2b 2430 days ago
It's not the same level of difficulty. Stripe being in more countries means more legal issues to deal with.

Ghost integrating with other processors is "just" a code change.

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