[eugenekolo]

Ghost is okay. My blog runs Ghost. I've been using Ghost from about when it was first released, v.09 or something.

I am now planning on moving towards something more static and simpler. Ghost started as a simpler alternative to WordPress, but slightly more powerful than Hugo/Jekyll/etc. It now seems to just be a WordPress clone written in JS instead of PHP. It's still fine and works well... but, I can't see a reason to use it versus WordPress and its lost roots to its simplicity.

I will probably be migrating to Jekyll for easier self hosting and hacking. Perhaps I'll stick with Ghost... but, I'm starting to become weary of "commercial open source" products. Self hosting is becoming harder and harder... it's in their best interest to make you buy the managed solution. It looks like Ghost has transitioned to a product for media corps, in that sense it looks good and I'd use it. For personal usage, I can't recommend it anymore.

[blairbeckwith]

I’m not sure how anyone can say in good faith that Ghost is “just a Wordpress clone”. Even a cursory walkthrough if the dashboard shows this to absolutely not be the case.

[jamesgeck0]

> I will probably be migrating to Jekyll for easier self hosting and hacking.

I was thinking of swapping to Hugo, but Ghost 3.0's static site integrations looks it means that I can just run Ghost on my local machine and upload plan HTML to the server. Seems like the best of both worlds.

[jjjbokma]

If you like to hack in Python or Perl maybe have a peek at tumblelog [0]? I am currently working on version 4.0.0. and I don't think you can get more static and simpler except for running an older version. You can see it in action here: http://plurrrr.com/

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[alexmingoia]

If you’re looking for a simpler alternative to Ghost for personal blogging, without the hassle of self-hosting, check out https://etch.blog - it’s bootstrapped, simple, affordable, and free of nonsense.