Telescope

Telescope is a fast, simple, and privacy-focused online publishing platform designed for writers to create and distribute content. It offers a robust editor, SEO optimizations, and various customization options for blogs. The platform provides both free and premium tiers with features like custom domains, advanced statistics, and branding removal.

Telescope is explicitly described as a "publishing platform" and directly compares itself to Medium, stating it's "like Medium but incredibly fast and with a bunch of SEO optimizations." It offers a powerful and easy-to-use editor (rich-text-editor), supports various content types (images, videos, tweets, code blocks), and has a content distribution mechanism (distribution-and-recommendation-engine). The platform provides real-time information about visitors and views (reader-engagement-metrics) and allows for user profiles and following. It also mentions tags (tags-and-topics) and offers email newsletter subscriptions (email-newsletter-integration). The premium features include custom domains and advanced SEO settings, which contribute to content discovery. While it doesn't explicitly mention claps or highlights, the general nature of a publishing platform implies community feedback tools. The monetization is through a premium subscription model for writers, not directly for readers accessing premium content, but it aligns with the spirit of monetization.