My blog has been on Wordpress since about 2007.

It works, and I appreciate that it’s free but I’ve always hated working with it.

If someone made a node based equivalent (so I can at least use a modern templating language) that supported comments I would be all over it.

The commenting system is the only real reason I stay. There’s nothing else I can find that doesn’t necessitate stitching multiple services together just to get commenting that I can find.

And as for being able to spin up a local dev version for casual edits — horrid DX! I wonder whether a big reason social media has stolen our online interactions over the years is because there are few (no?) blogging platforms that support comments?!