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Ask HN: Svbtle or Medium?
I am starting to blog and choosing between Svbtle or Medium, now that both are in GA. Which do you enjoy better and why? Does Medium's network distribution rival Svbtle's? Is Medium's platform advantages outweigh not having your own custom domain?
- tzaman 13y agoYou might want to consider to add Ghost to the list of considerations as well. In terms of UX it's close to both Svbtle and Medium, but you get to keep your own data.
- seancoleman 13y agoGhost is very intriguing, but I prefer a hosted, zero-administration platform. Perhaps there are Ghost-as-a-service providers that I'm not aware of?
- alexgaribay 13y agoGhost does provide this already. It doesn't do a very good job advertising this. https://ghost.org/pricing/ https://ghost.org/pricing/
- nodata 13y agoGhost doesn't do a very good job of advertising their download page either. Here it is in case anyone was looking for it: https://ghost.org/download/ https://ghost.org/download/
- minimaxir 13y agoMedium is much, much better than Svbtle, but keep in mind it'll be near-impossible to hit the HN front page on Medium.
- seancoleman 13y agoWhy would it be near-impossible to hit the front page of HN?
- markhall 13y agoI've been asking many ppl the same question. I would recommend considering how important authorship control vs content spreading. I've heard that Medium puts the author secondary and doesn't provide robust analytics. I haven't thoroughly tested Svbtle yet (about to). Ghost seems great but I don't want to host my own and debating if the price-point is worth it. I think it's great how much design innovation is going into the content creation process.
- gaelian 13y agoI wrote a blog post about this that you may find useful: http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2013/12/06/why-i'm-not-writing-on-svbtle http://blog.binarybalance.com.au/2013/12/06/why-i'm-not-writ...