Medium used to be fine, but with time their website became worse (popups, images not loading, way too much javascript, etc) and now I avoid Medium links. If I'm

Medium used to be fine, but with time their website became worse (popups, images not loading, way too much javascript, etc) and now I avoid Medium links. If I'm on a computer, I usually open a cached/archived version of the page. Substack... it was okay, but it seems that now there's a full page popup that comes up while we're reading the post. I'll probably start to avoid their links too. As for the alternatives, if all you need is a place to write about stuff, why not a blog? WordPress (self hosted or not) + your domain + simple theme.