willpower232, 1 month ago

@valorin I believe @molly0xfff recently did a similar migration and wrote about it so hopefully a few clues in here https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

valorin, 1 month ago

@willpower232 @molly0xfff
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

molly0xfff, 1 month ago

@valorin @willpower232 happy to help if you get stuck!

valorin, 1 month ago

@molly0xfff @willpower232 Awesome, thanks! 🙂

I'm using Ghost's Concierge for my migration, so hopefully they can handle all the pain for me. Although I've already had to build a script to interact with the API to bulk edit posts...

Did you have to deal with your Stripe account being "Managed by Substack"?

Ghost needs to be connected to the same Stripe account, but Stripe won't let me because it's managed by Substack.

molly0xfff, 1 month ago

@valorin @willpower232 I believe I only connected stripe once I had disconnected Substack from my stripe account (https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/)

my guess is the ghost concierge service should be familiar with this process

valorin, 1 month ago

@molly0xfff @willpower232
Ah! It wasn't fully clear in your article.

Every set of instructions I've seen talked about connecting to the Substack Stripe before disconnecting Substack so billing is uninterrupted. Even the stuff from concierge.

I'm wondering if my account is somehow set up differently. I've pinged concierge, so hopefully they've encountered it before.

molly0xfff, 1 month ago

@valorin i wonder if that's what @swordsjew encountered? see https://bsky.app/profile/buttondown.email/post/3kiqpgklky52v