I still use blogger/blogspot. Of course it could vanish at any second. Before that I used Windows Notepad and edited HTML by hand. If I had to start now, I'd

I still use blogger/blogspot. Of course it could vanish at any second. Before that I used Windows Notepad and edited HTML by hand. If I had to start now, I'd likely use a locally run Wiki with an export to a static web site, and completely ditch the idea of comments. I'd then post links to those articles widely across the social media, and let them deal with comments.