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After talking about self-hosting and introducing my blogging journey let me talk about the platform I’ve used to blog for 4 years till I recently left.

I do not remember how I found Write.as, but I tried it just because I was curious to understand how it worked.

The essential user interface and the markdown editor with no frills attracted my so much that I decided to start blogging with them.

The idea of focusing on content instead of all the rest was so amazing that I blogged there regularly till I recently switched to Micro.blog that is now my preferred blogging platform.

I’ve recently written about the drawbacks of self-hosting. In that article I talked about it from a generic and technical point of view.

Let’s get more personal now. 😉

Many years ago I was self-hosting Wordpress for my blog, but at some point I realized I was spending more time upgrading, customizing & fixing problems than writing something on it.

This situation was so frustrating that I decided to stop blogging many times because I had a sort of internal conflict. From one side I enjoyed blogging, but at the same time I didn’t have the willing to work on it from the technical side.

I even tried Wordpress.com but it didn’t appealed me at that time.

So I gave up my blogging activity for some time till I found a service that suited my needs.

Which blogging platform drew my attention? Hold on, in the next article I will tell you which service I’m talking about.