SVBTLE vs. Medium vs. Ghost?  

Well, to be completely honest, I hadn’t tried out SVBTLE before I wrote my comparison post on the subject which is the best new blog platforms 2014?.

So, for all of you who haven’t read my previous post: My pick went with Medium because:

  1. I frickin’ love the simplicity and the nice, minimalistic design. Both for reading as well as writing purposes.
  2. The workflow is great: One big image to set the mood, and then you just write text. And you’ll get bold, italic, h1 (which is somewhat weird), h2’s and links. That’s it: The optimal blogging platform for writers. No distractions
  3. It’s a blog network: I do love my self hosted wordpress blogs where I can modify it to my exact needs or have complete control over my data. But a network creates more traffic, and the suggested posts below adds a serendipity factor to it all.

So, how does SVBTLE play out in comparison? #

Well, I’ll have to admit that the clean design and the markdown speaks to me. It’s also nice, that instead of the like-button, there’s a nice kudos-button. It’s of course useless when it comes to spread your posts outside the blog network, but I’m really tired of seeing like-buttons everywhere I go. (Perhaps i just like deiversity..?)

Anyhow: the minimalistic design of SVBTLE is in comparison to Medium is however a bit… boring.

I miss to have at least one image illustrate the post.

What’s good though, is the possibility to make use of the GIT flavored markdown, which allows you to get markup highlighting if you are writing posts that include code examples.

For instance

class Evaluator{

   public function __construct($blogs){
      $this->blogs = $blogs
   } 

   public function evaluate(){ 
      foreach($this->blogs as $blog){
         $this->evaluate($blog);
      }
   }

}

That’s a nice feature and perhaps I’ll make use of that on my Ghost blog (wasn’t aware that GIT flavored MD was a part of that platform).

Sumup #

Perhaps SVBTLE has more muscles on the reading part, but for writing I’m not that impressed. It’s pretty much a Ghost blog that runs on a network and lacks the possibility to be customized.

 
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