Yeah, I don't know if I'd pay for access to anything on Medium, but the writing tools, commenting, cross-publication management, etc are good enough that I'd ea

Yeah, I don't know if I'd pay for access to anything on Medium, but the writing tools, commenting, cross-publication management, etc are good enough that I'd easily consider paying some nominal amount to run a site on it, presuming it came with site-specific branding, some ability to make static pages separate from articles, etc.