[jonhmchan]

I'm the author of the post and the lead on this project. Many of the costs you mention aren't so bad. As mentioned earlier, we actually consider learning GH and Markdown a plus for non-devs. As for comments and writing Python, some pain here, but were ultimately solvable.

Performance also wasn't the only plus here. Closing major security holes, making more of our content and technology more open, and moving to a platform that our devs liked working in are just some of the other wins.

It's too early to say definitively now, but we think the change is probably a good one.

[rquirk]

You haven't broken the podcast RSS feed, thank you. Another large podcast network recently did a redesign and broke all of their feeds, apparently on purpose. Crazy.

However, the podcast feed is impossible to find now if you didn't have it before. Previously I think it was on every podcast post as an RSS link. Now the individual tag RSS links all point to the main feed, rather than to a per-tag feed.

e.g. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/feed/ still works if you know it, but going to https://blog.stackexchange.com/tags/podcasts/ gives you an RSS link to just "/feed/".

This is probably not a good place for bug reports :-S

[clumsysmurf]

Did anyone evaluate ghost? If so, I'm curious what the verdict was.

https://ghost.org/

[jc4p]

We did consider Ghost, I love it and it would've given us uploading images to S3 for free, but static files and being able to use any markdown editor you want won over.