Medium is a poor choice for blogging

Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging by messe on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:30AM (#18441164)

Github Pages + something like disqus if you need comments? Add in a simple enough theme like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/, and that'll probably do the job. The main downside is having to use social media for discovery, but in that regard it doesn't sound too much worse than medium by your reckoning. You can even use your own domain.

Myself, I'm using a VPS (5€ a month, but 10€ a year goes to the OpenBSD foundation) to host some static html (generated from markdown), and have done away with comments entirely. (The VPS isn't just for that blog. I'm serving multiple domains from it and hosting my own fossil repos there as well)

It's obviously not for everyone, but maybe it'd suit you.

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Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging by fyfy18 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:05AM (#18441449)

Disqus is really bad in terms of privacy of users [0] (that article was from 2014, now I guess it's on par with most other sites).

I'm not really sure what the answer is as if it's going to work on a static site, the comments need some sort of backend. Most people aren't going to host it themselves, so that leads to these issues, as nobody will pay for a commenting system.

[0] https://chrislema.com/killed-disqus-commenting/

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Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging by KajMagnus on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:15AM (#18442059)

> nobody will pay for a commenting system

What if it costs $0 per year, if one gets < 10 comments and < 10 000 page views? And otherwise $10 per year? Or something like that. What do you think about that?

(I'm developing a no-tracking and no-ads commenting system, + open source, SaaS hosting, link in my profile.)

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