Medium vs Squarespace

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

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

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

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.

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.

Allows for finding new, related content.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.

Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.

Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.

Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.

Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.

Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.

Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.