Medium vs Pelican

Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.

A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.

There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.

Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.

Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.

As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."

Allows for finding new, related content.

Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.

Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.

If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.

As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.

Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.

You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.

They can enable this for you upon request.

With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.

Adds flexibility to create variety of websites.

All code is available on GitHub.

Supports reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats.

Uses Jinja.

Makes it flexible to cater to creation of variety of websites in addition to blogs.

Can spin up an build sites with thousands of articles in a matter of seconds even on very old computers.

Uses Pygments for code highlighting.

Easily handles multiple languages, like EN, FR, etc.