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Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online... Created by Ghost Foundation

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A beautifully designed platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing.

Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even (gasp) fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging.

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Ghost was added by s_ktt in May 2013 and the latest update was made in Apr 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2019. It's possible to update the information on Ghost or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by karlblass

about Ghost · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Really nice software. The update process could be better though.

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