Re:Ask HN: Thinking on creating a blog and need help (platform)
by gjmulhol on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:42PM
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Most complete is Medium -- basically minimal customizability, but you get an in-built audience and it looks great. It is free and might be a good place to get started.
I really like Squarespace -- slightly expensive though, and very complete, hard to customize.
Wordpress is hard to beat -- very stable and solid, highly customizable, but that can become dangerous/a distraction
Ghost (https://ghost.org) -- is newer and has been on here a few times. I'm sure some other HN readers might have thoughts.
I would use a personal domain, but only if you can post regularly enough to make it worth it. My old blog got stale, so now I am working on some posts on Medium where that is mitigate by the fact that I am not the only one on the channel.
I really like Squarespace -- slightly expensive though, and very complete, hard to customize.
Wordpress is hard to beat -- very stable and solid, highly customizable, but that can become dangerous/a distraction
Ghost (https://ghost.org) -- is newer and has been on here a few times. I'm sure some other HN readers might have thoughts.
I would use a personal domain, but only if you can post regularly enough to make it worth it. My old blog got stale, so now I am working on some posts on Medium where that is mitigate by the fact that I am not the only one on the channel.