Is Blogger still relevant in 2017?

I was looking for a place to publish by email, and discovered that I have this dormant blog. I think I’ll blow some life back into it.

WordPress seems to be the other common alternative when you’re looking for a place to publish by email, but those ads are just too intrusive.

The startup scene favors PostHaven. Both the yCombinator blog and people like Weissman use it. But it’s about 5 $ a month. Not a huge amount, but when this is free other places? Why bother, right?

It doesn’t look like blogger has changed much. Perhaps it has been cleaned up a bit? I changed the template to something cleaner, but it’s highly possible that this was here previously.

I tried to figure out if I could add labels when posting by email, but that doesn’t seem to work. Markdown support would be great for posting by email.

So for my purpose – the old post and and forget – Blogger isn’t the worst alternative!

Edit: The templates are poor compared to competing engines, and the editor produces less than stellar HTML-formatting. New lines instead of paragraphs? Not good.