When comparing Silvrback vs Wix, the Slant community recommends Silvrback for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Silvrback is ranked 16th while Wix is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Silvrback is:
There is no clutter and it's easy to read.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent blog layout
There is no clutter and it's easy to read.
Pro Real-time post preview feature
You can view your end-result right as you're writing.
Pro Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your articles.
Pro Great user interface
It is intuitive, does not get in the way of writing or reading.
Pro Custom favicon support
Favicon is the icon in the address bar next to the URL. Most places with a subdomain only allow their own icon. Silvrback allows you your own.
Pro Supports custom domains
You can set up and use your own domain name.
Pro Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
Pro Straightforward drag & drop interface
There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.
Pro Personalized templates
Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.
Pro Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed
This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.
Pro Great support
Cons
Con Image headers have a very awkward size
Lots of time wasted on finding something suitable.
Con No Two Factor authentication
Con No free or ad-supported option
Annual or monthly subscription only.
Con Generated html is very bad
A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning.
Con Hard to migrate away
There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to.