Excuse me, but speaking as a WriteFreely supporter I don't understand which features it supports that WriteFreely doesn't, why it wouldn't support some, or how it could be better organized or governed (in terms of monetization, relationship to the community, etc.) than my blogging platform of choice (respectively my own idea of the technical, cultural, and institutional layers of free software development).

I'm not saying this to dismiss this new blogging solution, I don't know the answers yet.

I mean to say however that in order not to EEE WriteFreely or get its own revenue drained by the WriteFreely niche, it would need (at first glance) to reach new niches, to provide a different (or more specific) features set, and/or to provide different workflows, that could be tailored for more specific target audiences.

As a reminder, WriteFreely supports both email publishing, a Ghost integration, and a publishing API that's already integrated into several IDEs like Emacs, which is what I'm using as a daily driver, so I wonder how not supporting them could improve the UX. (I'm sure it could, I just wonder how and I'd be delighted to see improvements in the minimal blogging landscape.) Similarly, Mataora provides an API with a necessity-made-virtue focus on minimalism.

Posterous is back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

Very clear pitch at https://pagecord.com. The video explains it all in a few seconds. Clear distinction from being yet another minimalist blogigng platform or static site.

Looks great. I am missing an index of existing posts, either on a separate index page or in a sidebar.

I had totally forgotten that Blogger has a post by email feature like this using (username.[secretword]@blogger.com)