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Tumblr is a an easy to use microblogging site and social network first released in 2007. On Tumblr, people can share stories via blogs and other media such as photos, GIFs, links and third party platform embeds such as Spotify playlist and tracks. All users of Tumblr can follow each other to get up-to-date content from the creators you live. There is also private publishing features which allow you to share your stories only to a select group or community. Over 500 milion people use Tumblr to share contet on the web for free.

Medium is an open bloging and publishing platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic.

Write.as is a platform that give you a beautiful, distraction-free space for your writing — no matter where you are. Write.as a provides built-in editor automatically save your work as you type, so you don't have to worry about losing your most recent draft.

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. Hugo is the fastest tool of its kind, it generates pages at <1 ms per page, the average site builds in less than a second. Hugo also supports unlimited content types, taxonomies, menus, dynamic API-driven content, and more, all without plugins. Hugo is written in Go and released fully free and open-source under the Apache-2.0 License.

Grav is a modern free and open source flat-file content management system. With Grav, you can publish content and build sites in a fast, flexible and simple manner with the file-based web platform. Grav requires zero installation and is just an zip archive that can be extracted to start using the CMS. Grave also comes with a powerful package management system that allow you to extend the feature set of Grav CMS. With the package management system you can install and upgrade themes and plugins written specifically for Grav. The software is written in PHP and released fully free and open-source under the MIT License.

Gatsby is a free and open source framework and site generator that helps developers to build blazing fast websites and apps. The framework is based on React and include a plugin ecosystem that can be used to extend the capabilities of Gatsby. With Gatsby you can pull data from headless CMSs, SaaS services, APIs, databases, even your file system with the help of GraphQL. If you are looking to build a fast website that scales with time, Gatsby might your best pick.