[vanilla-almond]

Congrats on the 5.0 launch! A few questions below...(thanks)

Back in 2013, Ghost was promoted as just a blogging tool. In contrast, WordPress had become a general publishing tool i.e. a blog, a CMS, an e-commerce store, any type of website (portfolio, news website, etc.) Fast-forward today and Ghost is also a general publishing tool that can do many of the things WordPress does.

How do you see Ghost vs WordPress today? Is it fair to say that Ghost today has become what WordPress is (i.e. a publishing tool covering the same use cases as WordPress)? Or is Ghost's scope more narrow than WordPress?

[johnonolan]

I mean I kind of wrote 2,000 words answering this in the post that these comments are about. We've always been focused on a single core usecase: Publishing, and that is still true today. WordPress diverted away from blogging and became a tool for building general websites, ecommerce stores, job boards, real estate listings, social networks (bbpress), enterprise tools (altis), and even full blown applications. In terms of diversity of usecase, you really can't beat WP for how many different things it can do.

Ghost's scope has grown significantly relative to Ghost, but - as I outlined in the post in some detail - our target usecase for the platform has remained pretty consistent, and far narrower by comparison.

All that being said: Apps have to evolve with the market, and Ghost is no exception. It's no use making something and then never changing it, because the world around it doesn't stand still.