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The way to cancel a trial is to go to the billing area in the product, then click on "Cancel" - red link at the bottom of the page. That instantly cancels the trial and deletes the account.
If you don't cancel manually, and the trial ends, then we still automatically cancel and delete anyway.
Author of the article here - that was exactly the point of the article.
ActivityPub, like many of 'open social' web standards before it, suffers to some extent from being invented without clear enough usecases in mind. Much like WebMentions (which we also adopted) the answer to "what's it for?" - often seems to be "yes".
So you can either try to ship the spec and support everything, or you can try to build an end-user usecase that fits within the spec, and get more specific. We tend to lean toward the latter, and try to create something useful - which would still be useful even if nobody knew it was running on [whatever web standard].
Whether we can succeed with it or not, remains to be seen :)
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.
That said, Ghost succeeded in large part because it was a new and interesting Node thing, and we might never have gotten as far as we have done without that :)
The platform has matured a huge amount in the years since, and we've gone from a scrappy codebase to a relatively mature architecture.
Our next big steps will be to decouple the product further, separating out the core API, admin client and front end so that they can be both built and deployed independently of one another - which is a bit more nuanced in a decentralised environment than it might otherwise be!
After that, not sure. Maybe crypto payments. We'll see
Thanks as always for your support over the years
I think if we were "trying very hard to hide it" we would probably do a much better job of it than that.
> Now it's a platform for creating multiple sites, and anyone can do it once you have installed Ghost. The default installer does not ask you a question to turn this off; I couldn't find it in the configuration options, either.
There is no way to create multiple sites with Ghost, and never has been, which is why there is no option to turn it off.
Overall, I think if you try using the product I think you might get a more realistic idea of what it does and doesn't do. But I'm not here to sell you anything, so I'll leave it at that :)
But let me know if there's anything I can help with
A lot of blogging platforms (including Ghost) start out at $5/mo targeting personal use -- but the ones that survive never stay there. Probably some worthwhile takeaways from that :)
Here's a comparison of Ghost vs WP in terms of time to install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMKNgV1gTHg
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.
Ghost doesnt require any clientside JS of any kind, it's totally user choice if/when they want to have that. Yesterday I built a Ghost theme with 2.5kb page size, and average pageload of 100ms. Super easy :)
My answer to the OP would be:
If you want to write (on a blog) then do literally anything but turn your blog into a development project that you'll definitely never finish - because it just becomes the excuse for not writing. (almost all developer blogs)
If you want a fun developer project to experiment with your personal website, and messing with new technology is the goal, then this stack sounds like a lot of fun. It also sounds like it will be obsolete and no longer shiny in 12 months, but again, if this is your goal then you probably don't care.
TLDR: developer tools will usually end up being great for development, publishing tools end up being great for publishing. Pick the one that suits your desired outcome best.