Aileen Booker

Ghost 6.0 has arrived! An enormous amount of work went into delivering our biggest upgrade yet:

🔥 Networked publishing with ActivityPub
📈 Deeply integrated native analytics
🛠️ Thousands of upgrades and improvements
💸 $100,000,000 earned by indie publishers

ghost.org/6/

Ghost 6.0 - Grow faster. Connect to the world's largest open publishing network, understand your audience with native analytics, and build a sustainable publishing business.

Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet

🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers

ghost.org/6/

12 years of Ghost Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one

Another year, and several milestones all at once.

12 years since @ghost.org launched on Kickstarter, now at $8M ARR, and powering almost $100M in revenue for independent publishers 📈

A few reflections on building an open source publishing platform, for a long time:

john.onolan.org/12/

Social web (beta) Increase your reach by connecting your publication to the Fediverse

Now in beta – increase your reach by connecting your Ghost website to the fediverse 🌏

Discover and follow your favorite people and publications across Ghost, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard, WordPress, and more – all in one place.

The open web is getting social.

ghost.org/changelog/so...

Ghost Ghost is a proud non-profit organisation building open source technology for fiercely independent, professional publishers.

It's been a while, but we are HIRING again 🚀

Join us as Staff Product Engineer and get paid to work on open source software shaping the future of independent media!

🌍 Fully remote since 2013
📅 4 day work week
💸 Competitive salary
🧑‍💻 Equipment paid for

careers.ghost.org

Democratising publishing Thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media.

Had a lot of Qs over the last few weeks about how @ghost.org is going to avoid ending up in the same situation as WordPress

A lot of trust has been broken

So, I wrote up how we structure & think about business, governance, open source, community & ecosystems:

john.onolan.org/democratisin...

Woohoo! This is really exciting!!!

Congrats 🤪