A number of weeksmonths ago I tried Ghost Blog to possibly replace my WordPress blog.
That experiment was done for a number of reasons that I won’t outline here. I will say that Ghost is pretty good for a minimal blogging solution.
It is much more narrow in scope than WordPress is, which is something that I was looking for at the time.
However Ghost’s minimalism had a cost as well. Some pain points were:
- No plugins. Every update required me to re-install Disqus to the proper template. This is planned AFAIK
- Constant updates (at ~2 weeks at the time of writing) but no automatic updates.
Now for a fair price you can pay Ghost to automatically update your blog. But at $10/month, it costs more than hosting and for a infrequent blogger such as myself, it doesn’t make sense. I’m lucky to hit 10 blog views a month.
Due to those pain points, I’ve decided to jump ship and try Jekyll. It’s not perfect (I miss my Markdown WYSIWTF editor). But it has some nice benefits. Fairly simple, lightweight, and I feel less guilty for avoiding the updates!
PS. I hate updates. But that’s another post.