For the past 8 months I've been running our front page with the open source software Ghost. It is a great system for blog posts, articles and even for newsletters. After 8 months I'm going through the metrics and seeing how well our reach is for the posted content. The news isn't all that great, over these many months our membership level is stagnant at the same level for over several months.
In the beginning when the forums were being run under NodeBB, my idea was to integrate the blog posts comments to live within their posts in the forums. Unfortunately the plugin to get this taken care of wasn't working and had not been updated for the latest version of NodeBB. The forums are what I consider to be the lifeblood of our very tiny community and, to not have this plugin work out the way I had hoped was a bit disappointing. This is one of the major reasons in which I decided to move our forums back to Invision Community. Open Source Software is awesome in many regards but, the level of getting integrations to work without having to spend many hours of troubleshooting was an important decision going forward. Wanted to have a system in which I didn't need to spend time running the admin side of things more than that of creating the actual content.
Getting back to our main page found on 2tonwaffle.com, I'm looking into winding down the Ghost site and have everything found fully within our Invision Community system. The software is very capable of doing this as with version 5, there is a lot of great improvements. I just wanted to get this post out there for you all to leave any questions or comments or to just get your take on this matter. I'm planning on getting things setup in moving posts over and creating a great looking landing page over the next couple of weeks.
For the past 8 months I've been running our front page with the open source software Ghost. It is a great system for blog posts, articles and even for newsletters. After 8 months I'm going through the metrics and seeing how well our reach is for the posted content. The news isn't all that great, over these many months our membership level is stagnant at the same level for over several months.
In the beginning when the forums were being run under NodeBB, my idea was to integrate the blog posts comments to live within their posts in the forums. Unfortunately the plugin to get this taken care of wasn't working and had not been updated for the latest version of NodeBB. The forums are what I consider to be the lifeblood of our very tiny community and, to not have this plugin work out the way I had hoped was a bit disappointing. This is one of the major reasons in which I decided to move our forums back to Invision Community. Open Source Software is awesome in many regards but, the level of getting integrations to work without having to spend many hours of troubleshooting was an important decision going forward. Wanted to have a system in which I didn't need to spend time running the admin side of things more than that of creating the actual content.
Getting back to our main page found on 2tonwaffle.com, I'm looking into winding down the Ghost site and have everything found fully within our Invision Community system. The software is very capable of doing this as with version 5, there is a lot of great improvements. I just wanted to get this post out there for you all to leave any questions or comments or to just get your take on this matter. I'm planning on getting things setup in moving posts over and creating a great looking landing page over the next couple of weeks.