Neat list, though testing out some of these showed me why normal users may not be willing to use them as much as the mainstream versions. I mean, I looked at mo

Neat list, though testing out some of these showed me why normal users may not be willing to use them as much as the mainstream versions. I mean, I looked at most of the Medium alternatives and created accounts there, and posted a few articles to see how they'd work. In doing so, I realised that: 1. Most of them still lack the WYSIWYG side of things, which is a huge part of why Medium.com is so popular (and why the likes of WordPress do so well as hosted alternatives). 2. Their use of Markdown makes things confusing, since the 'language' has about a million different versions all of which support different things, and said sites don't document which they're using. 3. In some cases, the interfaces glitched, like with Plume not loading the full post and instead only showing about the first four paragraphs of it in the post editor. Point being, the alternatives here really need to do more work on the UI design and documentation side, and lack the standard of polish or professionalism their corporate competitors have.