Hi. I’m Claudio Malagrino and I’m the author of a vast project called “Blue Angel Series”, with 8 books, graphic novels, 3D animations, Wiki content, spinoffs and a future AI episodic film. The website is hosted on Wix (www.blueangelseries.net), but the project is stalled there. I like Ghost features (email mkt, monetization, audience support), things that are so hard to do on Wix. I’m even considering the migration of the domain to Ghost.
A question to you, more experienced Ghost users: is it a good idea? Can I create a community on Ghost to follow my series and support it? There will always be new content for the series, and everything is so rigid on Wix.
Thank you.
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IMO if by “community” you mean a group of people that follow your site to get updates on your latest “books, graphic novels, 3D animations, Wiki content, spinoffs and a future AI episodic film” information then sure!
Ghost’s main focus is publishing and email newsletters. I feel like that’s more of a one-way type of communication, where your viewers/subscribers are receiving information from you but not really contributing back. Sure you have a commenting system in Ghost, but comment sections aren’t really where you build community.
If you are looking for bi-directional communication in your community, with features like gamification, individual user profiles, DMs/chatting, etc., you might want to look at software specific to that such as Discourse (which you can integrate into Ghost), where Ghost would be like your “website” and Discourse would handle the “community” part. Or you could spin up a Discord server for your community.
Or you could just go for an all-in-one community solution like Circle, which handles the website and community parts, however that’s a paid service and depending on your budget can be expensive. I’m sure there are some free or low-cost alternatives but I haven’t looked at any.
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Thank you for your comments. I’ll check out these options.