What I got from watching the pitch video for Ghost is that it makes the post writing experience better. It's not about adding or stripping away any functionality from WordPress.

And I have to agree that post writing, previewing, and editing on WordPress is very painful. It's sluggish and cumbersome.

WordPress as a software maybe is amazing, but the user experience is pretty terrible. I'm a long time WordPress user and developer and recently I wanted to start a blog on wordpress.com and wow. What a nightmare that was! The back end and configurations are more confusing than cPanel!

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