&gt; I don&#x27;t agree with the apparently widespread conclusion [..] that not publishing is better than publishing using a less-than-lovely platform<p>And moreover, I don&#x27;t agree that not communicating is better than communicating using a less-than-lovely platform... Static generators are fine for publishing but taking into account the requirements for blog-style bidirectional communication (comments, trackback, pingbacks etc.) excludes static sites unless one surrenders control to third parties such as Discus &amp; al.<p>Wordpress is fine - as long as one carefully selects plugins and culls the unmaintained ones mercilessly.