Tried out ghost.org. It’s definitely faster than WordPress, this was surprising. Plus, you don’t have to write in Markdown like hugo, so it’s super easy to create articles. Newsletters can be sent out automatically too. It felt like I could just focus on writing.
But reality was different. As soon as I got a subscriber for my newsletter, questions started popping up. “This subscriber probably wants to hear more about this topic. Is it bad if I write about something else? But if I publish, the newsletter goes out automatically, and while I can manually turn off the newsletter, isn’t that missing the point of using ghost.org?” As followers increased, I started feeling like I should only post about popular topics. The number of things I talked about narrowed, and it wasn’t as fun anymore.
I hated the newsletters going out automatically. But I didn’t want to turn them off manually either. And I didn’t want to limit my blog topics. That’s where the frustration kicked in.
With WordPress, you can create custom post types, so you can keep adding new types of posts without mixing them up with regular ones. ghost.org doesn’t have that concept.
Eventually, I got tired of it all and decided to go back to WordPress.
What I felt from using ghost.org is this: every time I tried to talk about something new, I started worrying, “What if I lose followers?” Sure, it’s not the end of the world if someone unsubscribes, but once you start thinking about it, even things you enjoyed become less fun. That’s why, in times like these, what really matters is expressing yourself and having fun, and picking a platform that lets you do just that.
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