FWIW I personally much prefer Bear's style over Write.as. Both from an aesthetic and readability point of view. At least for the landing page.

Everything fits on one screen, the font size is much more bearable, there's no unnecessary columnization or links to other parts of the site.

write.as does support custom CSS and JS, so you can, in theory, make look however you want. It isn't quite as light as Bear is, but it's no Medium either.

oh interesting! Yeah I actually hadn't been to their landing page in a long time, totally agree with your there (and feel like it doesn't do their actual blog product justice - to my tastes at least their blogs are perfect, low-key but elegant and very readable).

It looks simple, but isn't technically minimalistic with 77KB .css and loaded fonts. The first page load was actually visibly slow with the fonts repainting in a different typeface.

There's really nothing more minimal than https://telegra.ph

It just gets out of the way.

It has consecutive urls, relinquishes your drop of privacy.

.../140 -> test test test

.../141 -> My personal depression diary entry no.3 ...

Comcast DNS-hijacks that entire site as a "potential threat". They also block https://ix.io/. Interesting.

My text editor with hand-coded HTML begs to differ

Quite a bit of JS there.

Ironically, that was founded by a Mr. Baer.

https://write.as/about