# V4.0 Dashboard needs organising

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/v4-0-dashboard-needs-organising/21003>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [March 20, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/v4-0-dashboard-needs-organising/21003 "2021-03-20T12:21:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/v4-0-dashboard-needs-organising/21003/13 "2021-03-22T11:28:28Z")

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@rubenerd It sounds like you didn’t take the time to research the original purpose you’re referring to. The “just” in “Just a blogging platform” has always referred to a exclusivity of focus on a particular usecase, not a reductive version of “simple and will never change” that you’re implying.

It was a play on the criticism WordPress always refuted, that it was not just a blogging platform, and could do many other things - like build a job board, or a real estate website, or a social network, [and so on]

We haven’t changed direction. If we could have built the dashboard and memberships in 2013, we would have, but unfortunately it took us 8 years 😉

In that 8 years, the most consistent user feedback we’ve had is that people are looking to grow an audience and build a business, which is what memberships addresses. There are far, far more people who are actively looking for this functionality than those complaining about not wanting it.

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