On Blogging Platforms

Over the holidays, I was thinking about my blogging workflow. Looking at my statistics for 2025, I got the feeling that my setup is too complex and that it prevents me from writing more.

I thought about moving away from my self-hosted hugo blog on uberspace to a hosted service, where I could focus solely on writing text.

While looking around at the different options, Bear Blog and Micro.Blog quickly became my favorites. They both come with their own pros and cons, but neither is a perfect fit for me.

But that’s one of the cool things about the blogosphere. I regularly read Robert’s blog (and if you don’t yet, you should), and he recently switched from Micro.blog to Bear — or at least, that’s what I thought.

I wrote him a message, and within a couple of hours I got a reply. He didn’t respond directly via email but instead published his answer as a blog post. (Love it 🧡)

Now I know, he didn’t switch, but is using both platforms for different purposes — a perfect setup for him.

Carlos jumped in on the conversation.

Reading both their posts, helped me a lot. I want something where I can easily create a draft and publish it from every device. Often, that will be a mobile device. And while that is possible for Bear, it requires me to open their website. There’s no app or indirect way to publish. I haven’t tested that properly, but it feels cumbersome. I won’t write in the web interface and having to open another app and copy stuff over … I know myself. This won’t work - unfortunately.

Because on the other hand, I liked the look & feel, the possibilities and clarity of Bear more than Micro.Blog. MB has a mobile app and thus a convinient way for publishing, photo posting is simple, but it lacks - I guess on purpose - features. Micro.Blog includes a strong “social” aspect — something I’m glad I reduced. I feel this could become a trap for me.

What does that mean to me? Both are wonderful services. Thinking about it, I assume my challenge is not the tech, it’s finding that regular slot between family, work, and volunteering to sit down and write. Thank you Robert and Carlos for helping in that decision.