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A New Year’s resolution idea for you:
start a blog or a newsletter.

#blogging #Tips

29.12.2025 11:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blogging brings clarity to your thinking.

#blogging

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Just Good Themes Modern Ghost themes for newsletters, memberships, blogs and magazines.

Check out clean and minimal Ghost themes here -> justgoodthemes.com

12.12.2025 11:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A clean and minimal Ghost theme won’t write your words, but it will make them shine.

#blogging

12.12.2025 11:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Topics are now on the Explore page. Browse by Technology, Business, News, Culture, and more to find publishers writing about what you care about.

11.12.2025 08:55 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

A personal blog isn’t content, it’s an archive of your thinking.

#blogging

10.12.2025 09:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t write for today’s algorithm. Write for tomorrow’s reader.

#blogging #writing

09.12.2025 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Subtle Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Ghost theme for personal and newsletters websites.

You can get the Subtle Ghost theme here: justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes...

09.12.2025 07:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adam Woods Wildlife and Travel Photographer

Blog Showcase: blog.adamwoods.com

Adam Woods’ travel blog, powered by @ghost.org using the Subtle theme. Minimal, calm, and perfect for photo/video-driven storytelling.

#blogging

09.12.2025 07:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t wait. Monday is a publishing day. Get your post live.

#blogging

08.12.2025 12:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Explore the independent web Driving growth for Ghost publishers with a new discovery engine

Google search is broken.

Social algorithms suppress links.

Finding good independent writing online has never been harder.

We built something to fix that: 🌍

ghost.org/changelog/gh...

26.11.2025 12:57 👍 73 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 7

We build minimal themes for Ghost.

We also tweet about:
+ Theme updates and new releases
+ Blogging and newsletter tips
+ Writing and publishing with @ghost.org
+ Encouraging people to start (and keep) blogging

Start where you are. Your words matter.

08.12.2025 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

notebook

The easiest way to start blogging is to start writing.
A simple notebook is enough. The real goal is the habit.

#blogging #tips

08.12.2025 12:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

New: Custom content for every subscriber 🎯

Now you can control where sponsored content shows up and who sees it — from a single post.

Want to fine-tune the design? We added new settings for that too!

08.04.2025 14:22 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing Beautiful, modern publishing with newsletters and premium subscriptions built-in. Used by Sky, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values.

Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x

First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

14.03.2024 16:52 👍 3699 🔁 1710 💬 148 📌 380

If you didn't like it then you should have just unfollowed it Happy Monday! This week's edition comes to you a little later than usual, hot on the heels of a bunch of different work we're excited to tell you about. So grab your favorite sweater and a cup of coffee as we dive back into all that's bold and beautiful from across the open social web. Last week we shared Pixelfed's crowdfunding campaign with you. They're doing great, so far, and every little helps. If you haven't already backed the campaign, please consider doing so! It makes such a huge difference to indie teams doing their best to go up against giant corporations with minimal resources. ## What's new with ActivityPub? First and foremost, ladies and gentlepugs, we have achieved a great innovation within the hallowed halls of social networking. A technical feat so staggering you'll be forced to steady yourself like an FAA employee who just got back from vacation. Are you ready? Forget AGI. We have achieved the unfollow: 0:00 /0:09 1× Yes, it's true. For the past 6 months you could follow people in Ghost, but it was pretty much an until-death-do-us-part situation. Not ideal in those cases where you find out that your casual acquaintance Nigel turns out to hold some rather extreme views that are only now coming to light and you realize you made a huge mistake. Oh Nigel. Unfollows are kind of interesting because, on the face of it, they seem simple: Just stop following a person and getting new posts from them. Under the hood, though, there's a little more work to do. For instance, after you unfollow someone, you probably expect to stop seeing their posts in your feed — which means we need to figure out how to go and find all their posts that are _in_ your feed, and then remove them. What's hard about that? _[All together now]_ The database! Unless you've stored things neatly then it's hard to query, retrieve, process and delete the right things. So this is the first little feature-release we're getting out as a result of shipping our new database architecture. More of that on the way. This also feels like an opportune time to remind a few of you that if you don't like AI generated images of pugs, you should feel free to unfollow _us_! AI pugs make us happy, if they don't make you happy then that's totally ok. We can like different things. * * * In other news, John spoke at FOSDEM 2025 this weekend and gave a more detailed look into what we've been working on with ActivityPub. The official video hasn't been released yet by the conference, but as a subscriber to this newsletter we're sneaking (read: leaking) you an early copy. Shh. Unfortunately, the video has a few issues. John is mostly not on the screen, there's a bit of footage missing around the 20-minute mark, and the end of the Q&A is cut off. You can see the slides and hear all the audio easily enough, throughout, though! So what's coming up next? **Reposts.** Helping your most voracious visions go viral across an ultimately infinite plane of existence via technologically tenuous means of mass multiplication.

03.02.2025 10:11 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

The story so far Happy new year! After resting our paws for the past few weeks, we're back with some fresh ActivityPub updates looking back on 2024, and looking ahead to 2025. Last year was big, and this year is shaping up to be even bigger. Strap yourselves in and switch on the flux capacitor as we explore two-way time travel to start this year's journey around the sun. ## What happened in 2024? At the start of last summer, we announced that we would start working on ActivityPub support for Ghost to bring long-form publishing to the largest decentralised networking protocol on the web. We kind of knew what we were getting into, having explored ActivityPub support for the first time back in 2018, but building any software always brings up new discoveries and surprises as you try to ship something actually that works. Things were pretty basic to start. As we touched on in our last newsletter of 2024, the biggest challenge in working with ActivityPub is that all the data out there is abstract and inconsistent. It's hard to plan out exactly how an app is going to work, because there are a huge number of federated platforms out there with disparate data. An ActivityPub product could be a photo-sharing platform like PixelFed, a microblogging service like Mastodon, a reddit-esque community like Lemmy, or a video network like PeerTube. Somehow, we have to try and account for working with all of them — and the best way to do that is to just start building and see what happens. So we did! Things progressed slowly at first as we figured things out, but, after a few months of work, we got things into shape enough to start getting a handful of people beta (honestly: alpha) testing the first version of what we'd built. The real breakthrough of the year was when we split the UI into one screen for long-form published content and a separate social feed for everything else — which also allowed us to create an interface for publishing short-form content. Suddenly, we could see a path to your personal website becoming the single source of your identity on the social web. 0:00 /0:08 1× As we started to figure out the shape of the app, we also got a sense of which parts of it were going to scale easily, and which would be more of a challenge. So, with everything we'd learned, we started to map out an architecture that would allow us to support millions of users with tens of millions of posts. The main bottleneck, as long-time subscribers will know by now, is the database. Finishing up 2024, we managed to get ActivityPub to a place where we now know what to do. What remains, now, is to do it. ## What's coming in 2025, and beyond This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. We're excited, but also daunted. There's a long way to go between where we are now, and where we need to be. Over the next couple of months we'll continue to add people to private beta, before opening things up a public beta that anybody can enable in Ghost Admin using a simple toggle switch. After that, we'll focus on your feedback, bugs, and requests to get things into the best shape we can to become a part of Ghost core. Importantly, we're not going to get every single feature we'd like into the first version of ActivityPub. If you've been following this newsletter for a while, then you already have a pretty good sense of what it's going to look and feel like at launch. Long-term, we're looking at ideas around integrating RSS, federated comments, ActivityPub-based member authentication, and paid content in the Fediverse — but to begin with, things are going to be relatively minimal. It's more important to get real people using ActivityPub than anything else. We're at the beginning of a significant shift in the history of the internet in more ways than one, and we're feeling both optimistic and excited for the future. After two decades of restrictive networks and centralized platforms, there are a lot of very motivated people focused on one thing: Bringing back the open web. Hope you had a great start to 2025. We're excited to share it with you.

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Upgraded comments Threaded replies, sorting options, and improved moderation tools.

Finishing off 2024 with a big update to comments in Ghost!

New and improved 💬
- Sorting
- Replies
- Calls to action
- Moderation

Hope you all have a wonderful end to the year 🎇
ghost.org/changelog/up...

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Curious Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Curious is a perfect theme for an online magazine, journal or even a personal blog. Explore it yourself.

We just updated Curious Ghost theme to version 3.3.0: justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes...

19.12.2024 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Scriptor Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Scriptor is a minimal and clean one column theme for writers. Ready for Ghost 5.x.

We just updated free Scriptor Ghost theme to version 2.1.0:
justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes... #ghost #free

14.12.2024 11:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in 2021 runs on @ghost.org: kyivindependent.com #ghost #news

26.11.2024 10:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to heroic efforts from our international community: You can now publish your Ghost website in one of 60(!) different languages 🌏

05.11.2024 16:46 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Royce Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Royce is a single-author blog theme for Ghost. Featuring a minimal, subtle, responsive and content-focused design.

We just updated Royce Ghost theme to version 3.1.1. This update includes: fixed featured posts styling when there’s only one post -> justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes...

21.11.2024 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Forma Ghost Theme YouTube video by Just Good Themes

Forma Ghost theme quick overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g47J...

20.11.2024 09:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Independent media requires independent technology

Alongside Google GNI, Lion Publishers & Tiny News Collective — we're working to create a brighter future for journalism

Publishers choose Ghost because they (finally!) get to own the technology that powers their business →

ghost.org/news

15.11.2024 08:55 👍 62 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 5

Curious Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Curious is a perfect theme for an online magazine, journal or even a personal blog. Explore it yourself.

You can get the Curious Ghost theme here -> justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes...

20.11.2024 08:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Code Gardener An occasional newsletter about writing software well.

This is cool website uses Ghost CMS and Curious theme -> the.codegardener.com?ref=justgood...

20.11.2024 08:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ghost(Pro) - Official managed hosting for Ghost The best Ghost managed hosting from the creators of the open source publishing platform. Spend less time on your server, more time on your site.

Why choose Ghost for blogging? The answer is simple: it’s fast, clean, and designed for content creators. With seamless publishing and built-in SEO tools, Ghost CMS provides everything you need to concentrate on your writing. Start today! -> ghost.org/pricing/?via...

18.11.2024 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Royce Ghost Theme | Just Good Themes Royce is a single-author blog theme for Ghost. Featuring a minimal, subtle, responsive and content-focused design.

Royce theme is a great choice if you need a theme for a personal #Ghost blog: justgoodthemes.com/ghost-themes...

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