Aaron Parecki

@simonwoods @jemostrom To be fair to John and the team, that was the original intention of the platform — but they couldn't find a market for it. Hence the pivot to a publishing platform.

John and Hannah wrote about this in detail a year ago:

So the biggest takeaway after 5 years is that we have been moving, and will continue to move up market, toward professional users who value power and flexibility over ease of signup. This is where we can win compared to the competition. This is where Ghost comes into its own.

I'm a happy user of both Ghost and micro.blog, and this conversation feels a bit like Mummy & Daddy fighting! 😉

@simonwoods Agree

@jemostrom It's a shame they didn't have the foresight to see the impending backlash against social media and the resulting gap in the market for personal blogging.

@AngeloStavrow Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

@robothive @jemostrom You can also just remix this Ghost Glitch project and run it for free, with a couple of technical limitations. Good way to try it out, at least.

@simonwoods @aaronpk Yeah, this is an issue with external replies sent multiple times via Webmention. It shouldn’t update the time if nothing changed.

@aaronpk ... and now the reply has moved to 6:43pm. Wow!

@aaronpk ... and now your reply has moved to 6:25pm.

@jemostrom There are affordable ways to get up and running quickly with Ghost. I'm running a droplet on DigitalOcean for around $5 /month.

@simonwoods @manton fun fact: I support their kickstarter... but I’ve never actually used it. When I finally had the time to dive into it I realized it was too expensive and that I couldn’t run it on the ISP I use

@aaronpk This is so weird. I saw your reply first at 5:50pm, then again at 5:51pm, and now for a third time at 5:53pm.

@aaronpk @manton Look at how often they blogged as a group back when they needed the help of regular citizens, and look at it now. Sillo, enterprise, proprietary. You can't even use the link to their Kickstarter page in their original blog post!

Turns out John O'Nolan is about as reliable for sustainable web contributions as so many other "well-meaning" founders of such projects. Yet another platform built about individual ambitions rather than the betterment of the many.

@aaronpk @manton Look at how often they blogged as a group back when they needed the help of regular citizens, and look at it now. Sillo, enterprise, proprietary. You can't even use the link to their Kickstarter page in their original blog post!

Turns out John O'Nolan is about as reliable for sustainable web contributions as so many other "well-meaning" founders of such projects. Yet another platform built about individual ambitions rather than the betterment of the many.