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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Couple people noticed that Ghost was just displaying sensitive content in feeds without any warning. Fixed now, and added a global setting! (This is just a screenshot of the new UI)

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Ghost now supports custom domains for social web handles! You might've noticed my username previously was @john@john.onolan.org - but now it's just @john@onolan.org (drop the 'john' - it's cleaner, etc) Find it under Preferences → Social web handle Our […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Coming soon: social web domain customisation

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Shipped the Ghost admin toolbar I was working on a couple weeks back. Handy lil feature! ghost.org/changelog/admin-toolbar

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Just found my very first sketches from 2017(!) imagining what Ghost might look like if it had memberships built in. This was several years before anything like this existed in the publishing world. We were only a team of ~7 people at the time, so it took us […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Experimenting with a floating Ghost admin toolbar that sits at the bottom of your screen if you're signed in as a staff user, for quick access to edit any post/page

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

This is now live! If you have an old social web profile with followers that you want to move over to Ghost, that now works. Find it under Network → Preferences → Account Migration Set up an account alias pointing to your old handle, then initiate an account move on your old profile.

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Working on supporting account aliases in Ghost so that (if you want) you can consolidate older social web profiles and bring those followers over to your Ghost social web account

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Fun ship this week: No more downloading and uploading zips — now you can make quick Ghost theme edits directly in your browser, thanks to contributions by @murat@muratcorlu.com ghost.org/changelog/theme-editor

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

experimenting with a media library for Ghost

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Coolest new integration we've shipped for Ghost in a while - you can now give your subscribers access to members-only podcasts, in partnership with the lovely people over at Transistor.fm ghost.org/changelog/transistor

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Today Ghost.org crossed $10M ARR, as a bootstrapped non-profit foundation building open source software. Indie publisher revenue earned with Ghost now ~$130M, and accelerating.

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Wanted to embed Ghost socialweb profile on my site, so I made a thing that lets anyone embed Ghost socialweb profiles anywhere: github.com/JohnONolan/socialweb-emb…

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Ok, pretty stoked with this: I've been familiar with the "Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere" idea for a while — but this is the first time I've managed to make it work in a meaningful way Now when I publish ActivityPub notes from Ghost → they […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

We finally got around to fixing the social web search experience in Ghost Previously it was just an address bar, where you could look up an account by typing the (exact) handle. Now it actually works to search for things! Not the entire fediverse, ofc, but at least all the bits we know about

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

If you use Ghost and you'd like to find other Ghost publishers to follow - now you can! On the upgraded Explore screen in admin If you don't use Ghost, and you'd still like to find some Ghost publishers to follow - we've got you covered, too! There's a […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

Last November I decided to 3D print and hand paint a custom Settlers of Catan board (because I'm a huge nerd) I didn't think it would take me an entire year to complete it, but pretty happy with how it turned out!

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Self hosters are already included! Do you have Ghost Explore turned on in Ghost Settings?

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Sweet little update that just went live in Ghost: Default feed is people you follow, but you now also have access to categorized Explore feeds to discover new things from people you don't (yet!) follow Just a fairly simple reverse-cron situation to start. Give it a try and tell us what you think!

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

After 3 months - counting by number of servers (unique domains) - @ghost is now the most-deployed piece of ActivityPub software out there 31% of all sites that interop with open social web standards are running on Ghost Pretty cool! Doesn't represent […] [Original post on john.onolan.org]

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

Doing ~12M req/mo now on my laravel app - which powers explore.ghost.org (the public front end is very simple, the back end is much more extensive) Still blows my mind how much you can build/manage singlehandedly with a bit of help from Claude and Laravel Cloud

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

nobody: logitech: what if your mouse had ChatGPT

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John O'Nolan @index.john.onolan.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

Quick tip - if you're using Ghost and trying to find more people to follow to populate your feeds: Visit a profile of someone you follow, whose content you enjoy, and take a look at who *they* follow. Click follow on a bunch to audition some fresh content from new places.

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