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by webgurl83 3419 days ago
Agree with Blogger/blogspot if you just want to blog. I use that for my personal blog right now and love that it doesn't get in the way much. If you really enjoy installing plugins and playing with themes though, WP is fun. A lot of people are recommending Medium, but there are a lot of blog platforms around. Posthaven for instance although they charge $5 per month.
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If you really enjoy installing plugins and playing with themes though, WP is fun.

I hated the plug-ins and I very, very much enjoy playing with themes on BlogSpot, but mostly did not on Word Press. (In fact, I have considered doing consulting to help people with their BlogSpot theme, but it is currently a half-baked idea that I don't know how to further develop.) I found BlogSpot much, much more user-friendly for purposes of playing with themes. Some themes in Word Press can be fiddled with, but a lot are basically "This is what you get, you don't get to customize it" and I was enormously frustrated with being unable to achieve what I wanted. I spent an excess of time trying to find a theme I liked and basically failing.

When you talk of playing around with themes, my personal favorite for a while was Tumblr (at least until Yahoo bought them)