Oh. Not to offer… content?
SEO-wise I get way more better response from Google and DuckDuckGo from WordPress than Discourse. Sure, that could be fixed but as long a blog means some layout tricks in this context.
A blog needs quite more than layout fix. Just only meta-needs are different.
BTW, Discourse works already as a blog platform. I’ve using it that way a long time now. But when, not if…, I have an article that is not tied closely to purpose of my forum it will be published via WordPress.
Comment section of blogs are perhaps the second most overrated thing in the webistan. SEO-tricks are number one. Most of blogs get never comments, neither those few would give any value.
Sure — it would expand use of Discourse. Quite many would use Discourse for everthing, but would that be a smart move? I don’t think so. It is always better to do one thing really good than everything in mediocre way.
There is only one thing missing in Discourse: working way to change look of a blog writing.
And even that is not that big question because visitors… just don’t care as long they can read that text easily and without beggins for signing up to a mail letter.
Basically you are now saying choise to do blogging is missing but for me: how is that missing?
The editor… it is so limited that I don’t want create anything else here than just pure text with few images. It works perfectly in forums (well, almost perfectly because something like 99 % of the world can’t markdown, html or bbcode but it just doesn’t matter because majority never use formatting).
You just make a demonstration how to blog using Discourse. What tools did you miss?