Add full membership support to Ghost, allowing readers to sign up, login, and comment on stories. Having readers become members opens up a lot of exciting future functionality, including:
Paid subscriptions (like Stratechery or TheInformation)
Personalised reading recommendations based on reading history (like Amazon)
Personalised email newsletters based on user history (like Product Hunt)
Detailed analytics on a per-user basis (allows advanced tools like Mixpanel/Kissmetrics to be used)
Full community integration with Discourse via Single Sign On
User submissions (like Hacker News)
Memberships as a core part of Ghost would primarily make the platform far more powerful in terms of the type of sites that can be built with it, and the types of apps and services which are able to integrate. This is an idea Iâve been toying with for a very long time.
IMO especially the comment feature is one of the most missed features. A blog usually has the ability to comment posts, but Ghost is missing this. You always have to use an external service like Disqus, but it would be much more attractive, if this could be build in.
Hey John, this sounds great. Considering the existing Zapier integration, would it be possible to connect to an existing service like Patreon, so that the membership isnât tied to Ghost itself but the funding source of choice? I think that a lot of folks already have payment systems set up that would be tough to move over, but without a lot of glue connecting their various ideas to actual technology that they use.
Uff⌠besides routing, if this is implemented, John, Ghost is going to skyrocket⌠If we keep like this, at one point weâll say: WordPress? Whatâs that? ahahha jk not at that point, but it will skyrocket! +1
hey! are you considering the possibility to subscribe to a âcollectionâ, tagâs group or author?. I suppose that if the content has a curator, that should be enough for simple but interesting newsletters. thx!
Hi! I have a Patreon page and a Ghost blog and would like to put a tag behind Patreon login. I am pretty handy with Node but I donât know where to start. Has anyone implemented this before?
Moved to existing feature request topic - weâre more likely to build this directly into Ghost directly rather than use Patreon, but it should all be possible eventually