LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a well-established blogging platform that offers a rich text editor for creating posts, a feed for discovering content, and community features like comments and user profiles. It supports publications (communities) and tagging for content organization. While it has a 'Shop' for paid services, it doesn't explicitly offer a membership monetization model where writers earn revenue based on reading time, which is a key 'must-have' for Medium. It also lacks explicit reader engagement metrics beyond basic comments and views, and audio story playback. However, it covers most of the other features.