I am new to Ghost, and when I started setting up this site I wasn't a huge fan of the available free themes. Ghost has been trying very hard to take a slice of the Substack subscription money after Substack has shown again and again that they'll platform Nazis, and the themes are very much oriented towards memberships and subscriptions.

I spent some time searching, and eventually decided on weblog, a simple and old school theme. It doesn't use JavaScript, which is a huge bonus for both privacy and performance.

I do post photos, and most of the themes either don't show them on the homepage at all, or require you to add a photo to every post to make the homepage look right. weblog doesn't show photos on the homepage, but I am going to customize it later to include some thumbnails. For now, it's good enough.