The goal of this stack shift is to save money while still providing the same writing convienience to authors and performance/readability/etc. for readers. It is imperitive that the transition happens seamlessly, with no downtime for readers, and that all authors are familiar with the process of publishing. We currently operate at a 100% loss, managing our own servers running Ghost and Mail-in-a-box on DigitalOcean hardware.
Currently, there are two options I am actively considering. The first is a publication on Medium, a popular blogging platform. Publications are "a way to group stories together by many writers or by one writer around a common theme or topic" (via Medium). The interface of Medium is minimalistic and attractive, and is extremely easy to use with their rich(ish) text editor and social media logins. It's fairly performant, and supports several features for building communities, e.g following, claps (likes). However there are a few downides - primaril