Fluffy Toddler Bunny
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I think that the commenting system on Tumblr is terrible, it makes it very difficult to edit a typo after reblogs, but Tumblr is better at tracking people's reactions to it, and uploading multimedia such as videos, images, voice recordings, and so on. Tagging gets quite a fair bit of instant attention.
If you have a gmail address, you can keep your writing on Blogspot, which I consider fairly bare-bones, not as good at getting stuff out there via tagging entries--but then again, Google search. Also, the last time I checked, while you can keep some entries as drafts, editable but not viewable--all of the entries are either public, viewable to invited people, or private.
Wordpress is definitely my favorite right now. If Blogspot seems bare-bones about it, Wordpress has this giant chunky toolbelt that, even if it took me some getting used to, I don't have to use what I don't need. Individual entries can be password-locked. There are categories and tags, commenting system is intuitive, I think that they even had reblog options before but it didn't seem as out-of-control as Tumblr's reblogging madness. Maybe it was more that the crowd is more careful to link back to where they quoted from.
The best thing about blogs, in my opinion, are the categories or tags. That can make sorting through particular entries much easier. If you can remember to categorize properly, then you can filter through all the entries involving or mentioning a particular place, or a specific person. If you fly off into a lot of different "plot threads" then categories can help readers with following that. To my understanding, a category would usually just be for the blogger's administrative use, whereas the tags basically put it out there for anyone with internet access to come across, but some platforms make categorizing and tagging more fluid.
Another organizational feature is the "cut tags" which started way back when LiveJournal was the most popular blogging platform, and I can see how it can give readers a "gist" of a plot point that they can expand on if they're interested. It's like predicting what they'll skim-read. For some reason, Wordpress has not caught on to that neat thing where 1.) you can have more than one cut tag in an entry and 2.) you can toggle the show/hide instead of having it re-direct you to the whole sea of text in the entry page of its own. I suppose that these are blogger equivalents of footnotes/appendices, which some authors use excessively (looking at you, Terry Pratchett) and most don't use at all, and some readers do really delve into (looking at you, hardcore Lord of the Rings book fans) and most just skim over.
Next, I want to mention multi-media features, adding some visual interest, like a photo (even one that's only symbolically evocative of the gist of the entry), or a drawing (even a doodle--I do marker-on-whiteboard, digicam photo stuff and I don't feel like I do that often enough because walls of text can look so intimidating or boring on a screen).
And on the other hand, if it's a video or non-musical voice recording, though, I'd as much as possible get that transcribed, because I know people who prefer to read a transcript rather than watch a video, an I know people who can't see images or videos, or who don't have updated software to listen to online voice recordings--or who have a really bad ear for perfectly understandable accents.
Readers these days, though, I think are likely to have multi-media minds... So, just throwing that in there for consideration. You could stick to keeping a blog that is nothing but prose, as I mentioned all the bells and whistles shouldn't force you to use something that you don't need, and there is a readership of people who actually just read.
I guess it depends on whether you want to write a novel autobiography in a blog format, or if you want to blog the whole toolbelt (if the whole toolbelt is your storytelling style, or your memory organization style.)
I'm mostly speaking from a sense of the sorts of blogs that I like to read. I blog, and my blog-writing style is not my novel-writing style. My blog-writing style is my influenced-by-blogs-that-I-like-to-read style. Often, that means centered pictures with hopefully-humorous captions interrupting the body of the text, for example. Or pasting a picture demonstrably, giving the blog entry a slideshow feel. It's up to you.
Phew! I hope this helps! I wouldn't recommend LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, or JournalFen (the second two being imitators of LiveJournal, essentially) because those are structured like fortresses containing labyrinths.
I've never tried Weebly, could be worth looking up too.