Ah John! I’m honored you took the time to read and reply. My comments seem too harsh if they came across as an attack on your character instead of the decision to make Ghost a separate entity using NodeJS. I do still think that the Ghost team is taking a lot away from WordPress, but I do not renounce your contribution to the Core. You’ve obviously worked a lot on the Core and I have not contributed at all. Your work there gets reflected in the fact that you’ve taken up a project to rebuild an entire blogging platform.

I’m glad you mentioned the Admin plugin. Yes, it would have been difficult, even with awesome skills such as yours and others who are with you but one could argue that it’d help pave the way in understanding how Ghost would be better. Of course, your time, as you’ve taken the decision to make Ghost something completely different, is better spent on building the platform than building these plugins.

Please understand, I do not hate on you, I hate on the fact that NodeJS is not popular enough right now for the common man to easily set up their own Ghost on any server they want. Perhaps that’s where we’re all headed, but on a slow, meandering train. I was still learning Visual Basic in 2003, so I don’t know what the state of PHP hosting was.

I certainly look forward to Ghost, as I’m of a programmer’s guild. But my non-programmer friends will still host WP, as it’s much easier right now. I do know you’re not misguided and that by building a platform that’ll maintain compatibility with WP, you’re allowing a really good segment of plugins, themes and ideas to be available to both sides. Of course, all that I’ve talked about pretty much gets negated by the love the kickstarter campaign is receiving.

Had this been an email, it would have been a correspondence between the two of us. I’ve always learnt to write blogs to express myself and people can comment on them or write their own in response. That might well be the one thing we fiercely agree on.