Just to throw my 2 cents in, I recently switched from octopress to using silvrback at <a href="http://vivekgani.com" rel="nofollow">http://vivekgani.com</a> - here's why:<p>- I work part-time as a contractor, and part-time on my side project. While I have a ton of blog design ideas, I lost a personal bet that I'd have them done by the end of September.<p>- I have had lots of posts backlogged over the past several months. I was starting to have a fear of posting due to the design of my older site.<p>- Octopress is wonderful, but to use it right you really need to be familiar with tagging your repos correctly / using a separate repo for your posts. I didn't want to think about all this in addition to all my usual pickiness about the front-end design.<p>- I really didn't want to fiddle with wordpress. This is a personal blog, not something I plan to delegate to other content writers.<p>- As glennf and others have mentioned, I didn't want to use medium, or any other free site. I want my own domain to be used, and occasionally look at google analytics.<p>So far, I'm happy with silvrback. Liking how it properly scales images when I use refer to them within a list, Markdown is the first class citizen, and psychologically I'm not thinking too hard about blog design for now. Yes, there's some UX annoyances with the initial release of silvrback, but I'm sure Damian's working on them.<p>Will I still be using it in couple years? Maybe not, but for a site that's only got a couple posts and already gotten a couple thousand visits and mentions from sites like hackaday & packlite.tumblr in the past week I'm happy enough with it.