> However there are tons of disadvantages to blogging this way. The main one is
that your post is just text, nothing else. That means no images, no clickable
links, and no analytics to figure out how many people have read this post.
Text can do a lot! Remember ASCII art, and you can use Unicode, which goes way beyond ASCII in terms of letting you do fancy things like box-drawing characters and italics and bold and underline and... really quite a lot of things (probably more than a text encoding should let you do): https://gwern.net/utext
Text can do a lot! Remember ASCII art, and you can use Unicode, which goes way beyond ASCII in terms of letting you do fancy things like box-drawing characters and italics and bold and underline and... really quite a lot of things (probably more than a text encoding should let you do): https://gwern.net/utext