I’d want:

• To host on my own domain
• Not lose ownership of my content
• Customise the design
• Be able to transfer to another platform later

Yep. Guess you weren’t into blogs much in their heyday?

Back before FB sucked the life out of blogs, I often had 50 comment plus discussions on my blog with regulars and this would happen sometimes. It’s hard to impersonate another poster without knowing their email since that’s the field that determines the user image, but some tried.

There was one notorious sockpuppet in particular that I remember from 2007 who kept trying to pretend to be new users who agreed with his primary identity. Wordpress logs the IP and some other information along with comments much like Wikipedia does though, so it’s not too hard to tell. Ultimately, just holding the first comment from a new email address was enough to eliminate all the problematic commenters I ever encountered.

I’ve been using Wordpress for some time and… the experience was terrible.

I thought of creating a phoenix blog, powered by git repo, containing markdown files, when we decided to have a blog for the Sofia University course. But also wanted to have my own…

So it turned into a blog engine (Blogit from above), which was/is driven by my ideas of what a tech blog should be. And I wanted to be very extensible/customizable. The effort to deploy and support it should be done by the person forking it, so it is very developer-oriented thingy.

I think it is related to personal preferences, but as @Nicd said : it’s about running my site on my own way, and if somebody forks it, they will run their site their own way.

Many people would prefer platform like medium or dev.io, but there will be a few who’ll want something similar to the above solutions.

So thank you @AstonJ for listing them, also thank you for helping me find my way in this forum.
Cheers to @Nicd and @tyro too, I’ll check Sceopa and Mebe too!

I really dislike medium. Way too heavy and slow for a blog and the comment system is a bit strange.

Holy s…, that is fast indeed.

Yeah, for me too it’s about running on my own site in my own way. I used to post on Google+ but I felt too reliant on some company’s goodwill to have my blog running and available for others. Making my own blog software was a learning exercise and a fun experience (it’s actually my third blog engine). It doesn’t detract me from blogging as I write very rarely anyway.

I totally understand why some others aren’t as interested in that, though.