"Should Your Blog Be on Medium, WordPress, Substack, or Ghost?/A realistic comparison of 2020's top blogging platforms."

This is a question I have — right now, quite pressing — and the piece is on Medium, but okay.... it's on topic. I've been looking at WordPress. I've even signed up and paid, but I have the right to back out. I noticed — writing the last post — that Matt Taibbi is on Substack, and I looked at that site and it immediately popped out as much cleaner and more user-friendly than WordPress, so I'm eager to read this.

The author of this piece, Sah Kilic, doesn't present Medium as something that would work for me, so I can skip that. He calls WordPress "bloody slow," because of the reliance on "an extension for everything":

The themes are bulky and clunky, and the extensions have a lot of unnecessary fat to be trimmed. And the average user, not being a developer, tries to fix these issues by, wait for it… installing more extensions to speed-up load times....

I was overwhelmed with the complexity and messiness of the place and all the technical language. I was reading things out loud and whining "What does that mean?!" Ugh! I feel nauseated just remembering.

So, please, could Substack magically be what I want?

"Note to bloggers: In a free-speech controversy, you can’t count on WordPress."

"WordPress Takes Down 'Bare Naked Islam' Blog After Threats From CAIR."