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Christian, blind since birth. Avid web surfer!
Agree with Blogger/blogspot if you just want to blog. I use that for my personal blog right now and love that it doesn't get in the way much. If you really enjoy installing plugins and playing with themes though, WP is fun. A lot of people are recommending Medium, but there are a lot of blog platforms around. Posthaven for instance although they charge $5 per month.
I track ideas and random reflections using penzu.com
Lol um... I use Blogger as my platform right now. I'm going to be doing a migration to SunSed soon. I don't think it really matters these days. I guess they might think I'm impatient, because I refuse to spend hours and hours maintaining WP!
I backup my main system to Backblaze, and then back it up to an external drive every month or so. That external drive gets plugged into my laptop and the files get copied there. Yeah, I have Dropbox, but I also have a music collection that's a bit too big.
The ability for me to create folders and add feeds to them without having to click and drag. I'm using a screen reader so can't do the drag-and-drop thing, ya know. Also, an easy way to rename feeds without having to click my heals together 3 times fast. Lol by that I mean actually inserting a labeled element on the page that takes you to the form for renaming feeds. Oh and there's just one more thing. Perhaps I'm a bit old-fashion, but I used to love the Google reader way of doing things in list/compact view, as in a heading with the title and a link to the article, and then an excerpt. I haven't found a service that does it exactly that way since then. Lol, and before you regret asking this question, I'll leave!
I've been looking for a service to turn email into RSS for a while, (email to RSS not RSS to email.) This will definitely do the trick!
RSS still exists because Twitter and Facebook aren't open standards. I suppose neither are most RSS readers, but most of them will let you take your feeds with you if you don't like them. It also makes for better archiving than Twitter and Facebook, and I can have a lot of feeds in a central place, (without having to go visit a whole bunch of sites to catch up on what they're posting.)
I'm a webservice purist, do I absolutely have to download the app to sign up? Lol because I really don't like doing any long reading from my phone...
I'd love to subscribe but I'm using a screen reader so can't get past your captcha!
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the feeds at hnrss.org provide a link back to the original post, (even though they do link to the source.)
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the feeds at hnrss.org always seem to provide a link back to the comments in a thread even though they do link to the source.