Welcome to Ghost

👋 Welcome, it's great to have you here.

This site is built on perhaps the best web publishing platform ever made, the best version of Ghost ever released.  

The original vision of Ghost was a core of simplicity, and minimalism, particularly as opposed to the bloat of WordPress.  The version this site is built on is still secure to this day, while later versions introduced a severe security vulnerability in a feature that normal people didn't even want.  Everything about the project bloated, and strayed, but with Docker, it is fairly easy to run a specific version forever.

Security nuts will reflexively say that's a terrible idea, but ask them how many published vulnerabilities require some combination of local access to the computer, and working credentials.  "Yeah, after you get admin access, you can do this thing that you shouldn't be able to do, and so now you need to run my newer software."  That is almost verbatim their racket.  The only vulnerabilities that really matter are exceedingly rare, end up becoming front page news for anyone paying any kind of attention, and are typically introduced by bloat that nobody but a self important product manager, or portfolio builder asked for.

Quantum computing will be commercialized, and drain your bank account before this site gets hacked.

The Ghost development team's original welcome message:

We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial getting started posts that will help you get familiar with everything in no time. This is the first one!

A few things you should know upfront:

1. Ghost is designed for ambitious, professional publishers who want to actively build a business around their content. That's who it works best for.
2. The entire platform can be modified and customised to suit your needs. It's very powerful, but does require some knowledge of code. Ghost is not necessarily a good platform for beginners or people who just want a simple personal blog.
3. For the best experience we recommend downloading the Ghost Desktop App for your computer, which is the best way to access your Ghost site on a desktop device.

Ghost is made by an independent non-profit organisation called the Ghost Foundation. We are 100% self funded by revenue from our Ghost(Pro) service, and every penny we make is re-invested into funding further development of free, open source technology for modern publishing.

The version of Ghost you are looking at right now would not have been made possible without generous contributions from the open source community.

Next up, the editor

The main thing you'll want to read about next is probably: the Ghost editor. This is where the good stuff happens.

By the way, once you're done reading, you can simply delete the default Ghost user from your team to remove all of these introductory posts!