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Ghost flopped in its attempts to unseat WordPress / Medium, and they've had how many years?

I'd be cranky if I were the CEO too.

My running-theory is that it will remain this way until ghost's OSS version supports multi-tenancy properly: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1484

Wordpress took off, because you could support multiple sites for various clients with a single-stack - enabling third-parties to run Wordpress-hosting websites easily.

With Ghost, unless you are Ghost.com, you need to run one-container per blog you have, which is ridiculous.

Not just that but the cheap shared hostings offering dirt cheap setups to run wordpress sites on. And ghost honestly is not as feature rich and customizable as wordpress. WordPress is a full blown cms and so much more than a blogging platform.

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