[klelatti]

I think what Ghost (as you mention) is trying to do here with v 3.0 is interesting - seems to have most or all of the features of Substack - easy to set up on their hosted option plus full ownership of the email list and open source / potentially self hosted.

Interesting that "The Browser" is on Substack (one of the top 5 newsletters) but the affiliated and more recent "The Viewer" is on Ghost.

Of course Ghost still has a relatively small ecosystem compared to Wordpress which I think is why Ben Thompson still expressed a preference for a Wordpress based setup.

[1] https://thebrowser.com/

[2] https://theviewer.is/

[johnonolan]

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 officially still 'beta') but we're shipping updates and new versions every single week, and working toward making the product easier to get started with and less technical to setup.

We'll have a larger release later this year, but Ghost is already powering many thousands of paid memberships in the wild.