Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress?

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Do you think there's any chance, or the nature of async, the need of Node process always be running (and then having to use things like Forever), will prevent this from happening?

ericosperrella• 13 years ago

filipedeschamps2• 13 years ago

Any argument?

The rise of Ghost resemble a lot of Wordpress at that time: simple and fast - both features Wordpress doesn't have anymore... and Ghost do, despite the nature of the language and Node itself like I pointed above.

amavisca• 13 years ago

My argument would be the fact that it is "just a blogging platform."

brickmort• 13 years ago

The answer at this point in the game is: Not for a while. Ghost is still in it's infancy (version 0.3.3 as of this post), and it still needs plenty of updates in order for it to be a complete 'full-fledged' platform. Maybe once it stabilizes and has enough built-in features comparable to wordpress will it be a contender, but right now wordpress is the most hassle-free, full-featured website builder out there. You can turn wordpress into a shopping site, a subscription site, etc. but Ghost is still primarily just a blogging platform, which by the way is not a bad thing by any means.

The advantage that ghost has is that it built with a newer and much more solid framework, so it's not as clunky and has less bugs and security vulnerabilities to deal with (at least for now). The built-in analytics are a nice advantage as well.

In any case, I'm optimistic and excited about the ghost platform. I plan to make a move to ghost within the next coming weeks. I just hope the next release brings in some basic features, like static content pages.

Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress?

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