“Good looking”, of course not, because Medium can afford, and has, a team of designers working on their site’s appearance. With an easy-to-mod platform plus at least one good designer, you can get pretty close to Medium levels of good looks (or even better, as Medium is constrained by its nature to make certain questionable or outright poor design choices).
On “simple” I have to disagree. There’s nothing complex about the setup I describe (from the writer’s perspective). (Of course it needs a good admin supporting it—as does any platform with non-trivial capabilities.)
I meant the platform needs a good admin, not each individual blog. Does Medium not need admins? Does Wordpress (wordpress.com, I mean, not self-hosted Wordpress installs) not need admins? Does Arbital not need admins?
What I’m saying is that if, hypothetically, I wanted to create a platform for other people to have blogs on (who needed LaTeX support and so on), I wouldn’t need to develop new software for it, because such a thing already exists (and is very capable).
“Good looking”, of course not, because Medium can afford, and has, a team of designers working on their site’s appearance. With an easy-to-mod platform plus at least one good designer, you can get pretty close to Medium levels of good looks (or even better, as Medium is constrained by its nature to make certain questionable or outright poor design choices).
On “simple” I have to disagree. There’s nothing complex about the setup I describe (from the writer’s perspective). (Of course it needs a good admin supporting it—as does any platform with non-trivial capabilities.)
Yup, that’s a nonstarter for most casual bloggers.
I meant the platform needs a good admin, not each individual blog. Does Medium not need admins? Does Wordpress (wordpress.com, I mean, not self-hosted Wordpress installs) not need admins? Does Arbital not need admins?
What I’m saying is that if, hypothetically, I wanted to create a platform for other people to have blogs on (who needed LaTeX support and so on), I wouldn’t need to develop new software for it, because such a thing already exists (and is very capable).