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I modified Ghost to support a non-mailgun email provider (postmark) and it was pretty easy. So easy, I wondered why they never did it even though there were open issues for using other providers. It turns out mailgun has an affiliate program[1] that I venture Ghost is using. The amount of telemetry that ghost sends is also concerning...

Anyway, I abandoned it. I wouldn't recommend Ghost to anyone. It's a good blogging product, but it seems they're in the business of making money and not a great product.

[1]: https://www.mailgun.com/about/partners/



No, we are not on the Mailgun affiliate program[1]

[1]: https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/


> they're in the business of making money and not a great product.

???

Isn't everyone in the business of making money


No. Sometimes we humans do things because we want the thing, if there is money the thing gets us, it’s just a happy byproduct.


Ghost isn't a human. It's a funded company. Those do things because they want money.




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