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I think the attraction is it's close tie with Twitter (for some reasons, many writers seem to be in love with twitter; I do nothing there but curse and spoil movies), and that it's "easy." I personally run a small website using Ghost, that's all the functionality I need. However, for some articles, I can publish them "anonymously" (through a fake Twitter/FB account) to prevent blowback on myself (for instance, I could publish an article on suicide and not link it to my name, to avoid the taboo that follows the subject around).