Post #1379435
2023-12-21 21:10 UTC
@ryansingel There are nice things about wordpress.
* hosted option works decently
* being opensource means you can move to self-hosting if necessary
* upgrade process when self-hosting is extremely smooth & usually automatic
* many plugins and themes, so you have full control to customize it to your needs & audience
But yes, it's possible - and sometimes even encouraged - to go overboard on plugins.
It gives you a level of control and ownership that a VC option would usually never consider.
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@ryansingel@writing.exchange 2023-12-22 03:30
@kboyd I agree WordPress is great for so many things and Automattic have been exemplary stewards. It's a fantastic swiss army knife, but it's not graceful at membership-centric paid publishing. That's why we built Outpost around Ghost, not WordPress. Your first three items also apply to Ghost and we're trying to fill in #4