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    wrote on last edited by LoudLemur
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    A lot of people have started publishing content on Substack. It is a proprietary platform. Perhaps people here are familiar enough with Substack to be able to suggest a Free alternative we could offer on Cloudron?

    https://alternativeto.net/software/substack/?license=opensource

    https://substack.com/

    Would Ghost be Cloudron's best alternative? The following article suggests (proprietary) Cove for commenting. Cloudron offers some Free commenting systems e.g. Commento. I am not sure how well that integrates into Ghost.

    https://codelet.co/how-to-build-your-own-substack-with-ghost-and-cove/

    PS While researching this, I found that you can replace medium.com in an URL with scribe.rip and you have a different frontend for medium webpages.

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    • L LoudLemur

      A lot of people have started publishing content on Substack. It is a proprietary platform. Perhaps people here are familiar enough with Substack to be able to suggest a Free alternative we could offer on Cloudron?

      https://alternativeto.net/software/substack/?license=opensource

      https://substack.com/

      Would Ghost be Cloudron's best alternative? The following article suggests (proprietary) Cove for commenting. Cloudron offers some Free commenting systems e.g. Commento. I am not sure how well that integrates into Ghost.

      https://codelet.co/how-to-build-your-own-substack-with-ghost-and-cove/

      PS While researching this, I found that you can replace medium.com in an URL with scribe.rip and you have a different frontend for medium webpages.

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      @LoudLemur said in Self-Hosted Substack like option for Cloudron:

      Would Ghost be Cloudron's best alternative?

      I think so, yes.

      Also, it can integrate with Discourse for comments (that's my plan)

      https://ghost.org/integrations/discourse/

      Although note, however, that you have to use the Mailgun service to send newsletters with Ghost, so it can't really be fully self-hosted.

      See https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/

      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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        @LoudLemur said in Self-Hosted Substack like option for Cloudron:

        Would Ghost be Cloudron's best alternative?

        I think so, yes.

        Also, it can integrate with Discourse for comments (that's my plan)

        https://ghost.org/integrations/discourse/

        Although note, however, that you have to use the Mailgun service to send newsletters with Ghost, so it can't really be fully self-hosted.

        See https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/

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        #3

        See Twitter today, apparently Substack is (at least in part), now running on Ghost!

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          See Twitter today, apparently Substack is (at least in part), now running on Ghost!

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          @doodlemania2 said in Self-Hosted Substack like option for Cloudron:

          See Twitter today, apparently Substack is (at least in part), now running on Ghost!

          Ha, found it, fascinating

          https://twitter.com/johnonolan/status/1602330377812643850

          Ah, but:

          https://twitter.com/cjgbest/status/1602370307884318720

          A clear as mud really.

          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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          • L LoudLemur

            A lot of people have started publishing content on Substack. It is a proprietary platform. Perhaps people here are familiar enough with Substack to be able to suggest a Free alternative we could offer on Cloudron?

            https://alternativeto.net/software/substack/?license=opensource

            https://substack.com/

            Would Ghost be Cloudron's best alternative? The following article suggests (proprietary) Cove for commenting. Cloudron offers some Free commenting systems e.g. Commento. I am not sure how well that integrates into Ghost.

            https://codelet.co/how-to-build-your-own-substack-with-ghost-and-cove/

            PS While researching this, I found that you can replace medium.com in an URL with scribe.rip and you have a different frontend for medium webpages.

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            @LoudLemur Commento does work with Ghost.

            It's funny how the guide to a self hosted fee free substack / patreon site using Ghost builds on a paid theme and a paid commenting system that's all but fee free. Nice side step circle.

            @doodlemania2 @jdaviescoates
            As for Substack running on Ghost, NOPE, it's just them using Ghost compatible themes on top of Substack.

            Conscious tech

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