[coldtea]

>No statistics? It's a planned feature, but I feel like this should have been like priority one. Bloggers like to see that people are reading their material.

Hmm, not only that, but it was in the frigging demo as shown for the Kickstarter. With all the extra money you'd think at least they'd get the basics right...

[Nekorosu]

I backed the project too and I was also disappointed by the lack of statistics functionality. But I've recently tried to use it for my blog and my scepticism ceased. A lot of things are done right!

The editor itself is responsive and works on a wide selection of screen sizes (I've used it successfully on android phone). The markdown preview is actually an interactive UI. When you put an image markup without the link to the actual file there is a placeholder in the preview and you can just drag and drop an image to fill it. The image gets uploaded to your server and everything just works (I've tried it on my phone too).

All these things together make blogging much more fun and frictionless process. Not a bad start in the end!

I also like the fact there is already some decent themes for the engine. I personally use Ghostium that tries to look like Medium and uses all the web standards suitable for the task. You can see it in action on my blog http://nikdudnik.com