Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by crispytx on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:06PM (#14887542)

I use Medium because I think their blogging software is superior to their competitors (WordPress). If there was something out there as good as Medium that I could install on my own servers I might do that. This seems to be the hierarchy of blogging software to me: Medium > WordPress > Blogger

I'm sure there are some other really great options out there that I've never heard of. And I'm sure if you spend a great deal of time looking you can find kickass WordPress themes. But the default WordPress themes are pretty weak, and Blogger is really weak.

So anyway, that's I use Medium to host my blog, because their blogging software simply kicks ass.

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by justanton on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:24PM (#14887610)

Did you try Ghost (https://ghost.org)? Their editor is quite good. Also, they've released version 1.0 a few days ago.

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by cyberferret on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:17PM (#14888147)

+1 for Ghost - it is really lightweight, and I have a blog running on it on a $5/mo Digital Ocean instance.

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