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Re:Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress? by brickmort on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @10:17PM (#6766076)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress? by ericosperrella on Monday November 18, 2013 @06:17PM (#6758023)
no
Re:Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress? by filipedeschamps on Monday November 18, 2013 @06:27PM (#6758066)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress? by amavisca on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:50AM (#6759814)
My argument would be the fact that it is "just a blogging platform."
Re:Ask HN: Will Ghost be the next Wordpress? by filipedeschamps on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @03:39AM (#6759926)
As also Wordpress at the beginning.