Well, I just upgraded the blog to v4 of Ghost and... urgh.
I liked the idea of Ghost when it first launched - it was an experiment in building a full blogging platform on top of Node.js. Part of the appeal was that due to the limitations of Node at the time, the whole process of writing and posting entries was simple (because it had to be). However, the founders embraced those constraints:
Ghost, is my idealistic and fictional concept for a WordPress-lite fork. It has one purpose, and only one purpose: enabling digital publishing for the masses. Enabling people with more important ideas and things to say than I ever will to publish content online - quickly, easily, beautifully and efficiently. Ghost is about breaking down the same barriers that WordPress originally did.
I'm not sure what happened to those ideas, but after I upgraded and opened the dashboard, I was presented with this:
Somewhere along the line, the vision changed from "quickly and easily publishing content" to "building a subscriber monetisation platform". The upgrade even broke the default theme, making it basically unusable.
So... I may be looking for a new blogging platform soon.
Yours etc,
Patto