Those Smash articles were a welcome surprise! Follow&#x27;d. :)<p>I love &quot;owning&quot; my content on my server (since &#x27;09) but in the past year I&#x27;ve been thinking of going back to a &quot;serviced&quot; solution. My initial thought was WordPress.com since I run WP, but it&#x27;s $99 a year! It decreases the hassle of upgrading versions constantly, but still, that&#x27;s a dealbreaker.<p>What&#x27;s attractive about Medium is the same thing that attracted me to Facebook: all profiles&#x2F;posts use the same theme, and that theme is pretty good. In addition, following people to get their content in your feed feels great.<p>However, I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;m completely ready to give up control yet. Will probably continue to check into Medium + custom URLs for the next year.<p>The decision would be much easier if my posts were written for a large audience, but they&#x27;re mostly just self-involved journal entries I doubt people want to go back and read. :) Right now I just publish short fiction to Medium, which is what I want people to share, like, etc.