The Ghost.org project has been on an incredible journey over the past few months, documenting all of their hard work in the open, for the whole network to see. The team has shared the various challenges they’ve overcome, and the project has gone to develop a fantastic interface for using the platform for social purposes in addition to an authoring tool.
I’ve actually been dogfooding Ghost for my personal site since the March Beta, and wrote about the initial experience earlier this year. There are a number of subtle improvements and feature additions now, and the dashboard is generally more stable and loads much more quickly. This new version also ships with integrated comments and better documentation, along with a vast amount of other changes under the hood.
With that being said, Ghost members using the Beta likely won’t see major differences between the version they were using previously, and the 6.0 release now. The real story here is that anyone can now set up their own Ghost blog, switch on the Social Web integration, and be able to reach out to the rest of the network. Ghost’s reported compatibility work with WordPress and Flipboard will hopefully continue to bear fruit.
If you were interested in self-hosting a Ghost installation, now is a great time to do it! Check out the installation guide if you’re doing it for the first time, or read up on how to update your existing Ghost install to use the new federation features!
