[scrollaway]

The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible.

For what it's worth I hate medium as well. But I would recommend ghost.org if you want to go with self hosting.

[shantly]

> The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible.

Looks reader-mode-compatible in Safari, which solves the problem for any site that's mostly content.

[cellularmitosis]

You can make a lightweight blog with no ads which looks good on mobile by making a linked list of github gists. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1106b185f8b34ae0e36a...

[savolai]

Also choosing a good wordpress theme helps a lot. :)

[ihuman]

The post is using [0] this theme, which hasn't been updated in over 6 years.

[0] https://wordpress.org/themes/duster/

[ngcc_hk]

Seems ok reading in my mobile safari, not even using reader mode.

[saagarjha]

The code causes the page to scroll horizontally, unfortunately. Not a big deal, though: Reader Mode solves this on the client-side, and the website just needs to add CSS that lets the code scroll.