Ghost 0.3 (Kerouac) Launches
blog.ghost.org
blog.ghost.org
This announcement suffers from the common problem of assuming readers already know what Ghost is. A few paragraphs down you mention Markdown and Jack Kerouac so I assume Ghost is related to text editing, but a sentence or two at the very top that explains Ghost would make this much better.
Again, congrats on the launch.
As is, I actually had to type in "ghost.org" manually into the URL bar because they don't have a link from their blog to their website.
http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit
and the post does a good job explaining what that means and why it was chosen. I definitely want to see more mini-Mozillas :)
If you don't know what Ghost is, I suggest you take a look at John O'Nolan's post from a while back that precipitated Ghost: http://john.onolan.org/ghost
How will this not be a huge barrier to achieve the same traction Wordpress has?
[1]: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...
One example[1], from 37 Signals back in 2009, showed a 320ms response time (gack!) with 9,000 requests per minute on 10 4vcpu/4gb VMs in a private cluster.
Assuming they had a reasonably tuned storage subsystem, this is pretty terrible performance. That's about 150 requests per second for 10 VMs with 40 vcpus and 40gb RAM. However, that doesn't quite match up with the 320ms claim, which would have them pushing a little lower. I'll assume a rounding error.
Things have gotten better in many cases, but hardware and scaling up and out is still the best way to improve rails performance.
[1] https://37signals.com/svn/posts/1819-basecamp-now-with-more-...
I think that such big revenue came exactly from the stress devs put on the "simplicity feature".
But I have this kind of feeling that I would like to be shown the part of the picture I am ignoring so to be proven wrong (which hasn't happened so far...).
plus it tapped into simmering uneasiness that wordpress has now overgrown itself into a convoluted bloated mess.
i also happen to believe that the 2-pane display, with light-markup input on one side and output on the other, is the _best_ user-interface for light-markup, but that likely occurs subconsciously (if at all) for most people.
finally, of course, once a kickstarter project goes viral, it gets even more attention because people talk about that.
-bowerbird
i would be surprised if they didn't try to build a hosted version, wordpress style.
So, domain aside, that is supposed to eventually happen.
Unfortunately I was late for the campaign, but once it hits the public, I'll give it a try.
For those who don't know, it's a new blogging platform based on Node.js that tries to break away from the wordpress bloat and get blogging back to basics. And with great looks :)
I've used it with a Hubot instance for our Hipchat room at the office and it works great.
Also, is the code going to be in github?