medium_to_ghost
Productivity
blog migration tool
SHOW HN2018
19points
6comments
#1,225of 2,155 in 2018
Top 57%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
3 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for breaking lock-in to Medium
From 2 comments
Neat. Love the work towards breaking lock-in. You should probably actually link to the ghost website in your readme somewhere. I was mildly aware and interested in the ghost…
cyborgx7 on HNVery neat. Thanks for sharing - also agree with your sentiment that it feels like content is locked up in Medium, even more so with the subscription plans.
tixocloud on HN
Someone wanted this after manually migrating
From 1 comment
I did this manually a few months ago - would have loved this!
canadianwriter on HN
Objections
Only supports Ghost, which just swaps one lock-in for another
From 1 comment
That's great, but why just Ghost? Why didn't you create a tool that would just extract your content from Medium and let you use it anywhere else? Now I'm just trapped on Ghost!
fiatjaf on HN
Requests
Link to the Ghost website in the readme
From 1 comment
Neat. Love the work towards breaking lock-in. You should probably actually link to the ghost website in your readme somewhere. I was mildly aware and interested in the ghost…
cyborgx7 on HN
Support for exporting to other platforms beyond Ghost
From 1 comment
That's great, but why just Ghost? Why didn't you create a tool that would just extract your content from Medium and let you use it anywhere else? Now I'm just trapped on Ghost!
fiatjaf on HN
Alternatives named
Medium to WordPress and Ghost to WordPress converters
From 1 comment
Nice. I just looked up Ghost to WordPress (exists) and Medium to WordPress (exists). I like Publii myself for small static sites that even my mom can use, but still like…
WhiteOwlLion on HN