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Some time ago, I wrote about my experience in different blogging stacks. I've tried WordPress, Markdown with Jekyll, Substack, Notion sites, and played a bit with Blogger and Obsidian. I simply didn't like any of them. All what I wanted is:

1. WYSIWYG editor (sincerely, not too much to ask from the universe). I want to see the image that I am including, not the URL of that image

2. When I set a theme and a font, I want to experience that when I am writing (I am setting this for me, before others!).

3. A fast editor

4. The ability to customize the site, more in terms of organization and basic themes, without the mazes of HTML templates, Liquid whatever, CSS...

5. Maybe I can a nicer way to arrange images?

Simple things...

Notion came the closest the tick all the boxes. But the performance of the website was abysmal.

Now, I don't know if Google Sites is the right solution or not. I am concerned, but I am also frustrated with all the other solutions. Will it scale well? Will the interface hold (I get really nervous with all these webapp interfaces)? What is it that I don't see? I am letting go of the ownership that I had with Jekyll, in favor of this convenience. 

But again, I didn't gain much from my ownership of the Jekyll stack, it probably discouraged me from writing.

So, here is a random shot into the abyss...