Ghost 6 now on typetale!

We're excited to announce that Typetale now supports Ghost 6, complete with native analytics and social web features.

Over the past month, we've been working hard to migrate all our existing customers to Ghost 6. We noticed that many users weren't sure if their themes were compatible with the new version, so we encouraged them to reach out to their theme developers for updates. Throughout this process, we stayed in constant contact with our customers to ensure they were ready for the transition. Our goal was to avoid any surprises, and we focused on maintaining transparency every step of the way.

What does Ghost 6 offer to Typetale customers?

After thoroughly studying Ghost 6 and its deployment stack, we identified a few key areas of concern.

Analytics: A reliance on Tinybird

Ghost 6 relies on Tinybird, a closed-source, externally hosted service. Since we have always hosted our own infrastructure and plan to continue doing so, using an external service like Tinybird was out of the question.

We immediately began looking for an alternative. For our Starter and Professional customers, we already host Plausible Analytics. Our initial thought was to write a proxy service to relay all Tinybird calls to Plausible, adding a compatible proxy in between for Ghost to read the data. However, we realized this would take months to develop and get production-ready.

Then, we learned about the Tinybird Docker image. The Tinybird team states that this is the same image they use for their own service, so we quickly jumped on the opportunity to explore it. After running several tests, we successfully integrated it into our infrastructure. We're thrilled to share that all your analytics data is now contained within Typetale's infrastructure. We do not share any data with external services, and all your data is safely hosted on our GDPR-compliant servers in the EU.

Social Web: Hard limits on followers

According to a post by Ghost's official team, the ActivityPub server they host has a hard limit of 2,000 followers and 2,000 people you are following. We didn't like this limitation and wanted to do better for our customers.

That's why we decided to host our own ActivityPub server for Typetale customers, with no limits. Go ahead, make some friends, and start populating your feeds!

A big Thank you to the community

Typetale is only possible because of so many awesome open-source projects. We've tried our best to support the open-source community, whether by open-sourcing our Mailgun-SES proxy server for others to use or by helping the community with their questions.

We'd love to hear your feedback about your journey with Typetale!