[maddynator]

I use substack thinkingthrough.substack.com

I have hosted many in the past. Self hosted, wordpress, and a php version (I forgot what it was called)

The biggest problem with all those was dealing in spam comments and bad cross links.

Then I tried medium but it didn’t use to share subscriber emails.

Ended up migrating to Substack and been very happy with it for past 3 years

[tiffanyh]

Have you considered not having Comments?

That would completely eliminate spam and ~100% of your troubles.

[maddynator]

yeah I thought about it but then it defeated the purpose of comments i.e. engagement and perspective of reader. Substack does a good job at it