Ghost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for creators and businesses to build newsletters, memberships, and content websites.
About this data
Updated June 22, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
-16 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 49 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 19 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
Weekly Sentiment Trend
Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.
This week in public discussion
Sentiment around Ghost has softened in recent weeks, with a pulse score that dropped from the prior period. Discussion was dominated by complaints, particularly around bugs and reliability, with several commenters reporting broken functionality following a version upgrade. A security-related report circulated multiple times drew notable concern among community members. On the positive side, a handful of mentions pointed to integration interest and feature parity efforts, though these were clearly outnumbered by frustrations.
Read the deeper analysisAI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Sentiment mix by week
How the tone of public discussion splits each week.
Most-discussed praise
Most-discussed complaints
Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.
How Ghost compares
Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Coding.
Where the mentions come from
Share of the 49 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 49 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.
“Ghost Feature Parity Roadmap. # Ghost Feature Parity Roadmap This is the living roadmap tracking Ghostlite's progress toward Ghost CMS feature parity — while staying 100% on Cloudflare's free tier (Pages + D1 + R2 + KV). **Vision:** A lightweight, fast, free-to-host Ghost alterna...”
“Automazione: da JSON giornaliero → draft newsletter Ghost. Script che usa la **Ghost Admin API** per creare automaticamente un draft di newsletter ogni mattina con il contenuto del giorno.\n\nFlusso:\n1. GitHub Actions genera JSON con recap + top 3\n2. Script chiama Ghost Admin A...”
“Public preview emails ignore tier-specific visibility. When a post has visibility: 'tiers' and includes a public preview divider, the newsletter email delivers the **full** post content to all paid members, including those on tiers that do not have access. On the website, the sam...”
“[Activitypub] Implement retrieving object part of the spec. ### Issue Summary Hello, In activitypub spec, there's a retrieving object section that defines the server MUST present the ActivityStreams object representation in response to application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3...”
“Ghost CMS Integration — analytics sync + Performance tab. **Status:** Publish ✅ LIVE. JWT auth, HTML via ?source=html, feature_image external URL, sync check live. **Remaining:** - [ ] Add Ghost to analytics sync route — pull view/reaction counts from Ghost Admin API - [ ] Add Gh...”
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- Bug and reliability complaints dominated the conversation and outweighed praise-side mentions by a wide margin.
- Sentiment declined sharply in the final weeks of the window, with the most recent score readings being the lowest of the period.
- A security vulnerability discussion surfaced in late May and appeared to accelerate the negative turn in tone.
- Opinion was divided between developers who expressed enthusiasm for Ghost's integration potential and users frustrated by regression bugs introduced through updates.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Feature requests | 7 |
| Strong features | 6 |
| Good integrations | 6 |
| Lacking integrations | 3 |
| Fair pricing | 2 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 20 |
| Reliability | 10 |
| Missing features | 8 |
| Feature requests | 5 |
| Lacking integrations | 5 |
Discussion about Ghost over the four-week window was dominated by bug reports and reliability concerns, which together accounted for the majority of complaint-side mentions. Commenters raised specific friction around upgrade behavior, with at least one mention describing a paste functionality breaking after a Docker version update, suggesting that routine version bumps were introducing regressions that frustrated users. A crawl-related bug involving sitemap-discovered URLs was also surfaced, pointing to edge-case reliability gaps that several mentions framed as blocking workflows.
The score trajectory tells a story of volatility followed by a sharp late decline. After a brief climb toward the mid-50s in late April, sentiment fell back into the low-to-mid 30s through early May, recovered partially in mid-May, then dropped steeply into the high teens and low 20s by early June and mid-June. The most recent data points represent the weakest sentiment readings in the window, suggesting the mood around Ghost worsened considerably as the period closed.
A security-related discussion cluster emerged around late May and appeared to correlate with the score dip at that point. Mentions referencing a vulnerability in Ghost's content API and the potential for admin API key exposure circulated in what looked like news-aggregation or community sharing contexts, and the complaint data flagged security as a notable theme despite it being coded as praise in a narrow sense, pointing to divided framing around how the disclosure was handled.
On the positive side, a smaller thread of discussion showed developers actively building integrations and connectors around Ghost, and feature-oriented conversations about API access and content sourcing carried a constructive tone. Some commenters were clearly engaged with Ghost as a platform worth extending, which provided a counterweight to the heavier negative current. Opinion was most divided on whether the platform's extensibility offset its stability concerns.
AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Member perspectives
Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.
Overall Pulse Score
-16 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 49 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 19 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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