# Differences between Write.as and WriteFreely **URL:** \ **Category:** WriteFreely\ **Created:** [May 30, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/differences-between-write-as-and-writefreely/648 "2019-05-30T15:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/differences-between-write-as-and-writefreely/648/1 "2019-05-30T15:12:49Z")
Write.as is our official instance of WriteFreely, and includes additional functionality on top of the base product. Here’s a list of the differences, and reasons they’re not included in WF. - **Anonymous (no-signup) publishing.** We left this out of WF because while it’s a nice feature, it requires an immense amount of admin work to keep spam and abuse at bay. Most admins would probably decide that the feature isn’t worth the trouble. - **Publish via email.** This is a fairly complex feature that we ultimately didn’t see a ton of demand for, so we decided not to spend the necessary time on bringing it to WF. If we see more demand for it, it may come to WF. - **Cross-posting to Twitter, Ghost, and Tumblr.** This requires additional administrative work and needs more development on our part to support various configurations. We’d like to eventually include this in WF. - **Subdomain and custom domain support.** Right now this isn’t in WF because it adds more administrative work configuring a server, instructing users, generating SSL certificates, etc. We may support it eventually. - **Custom Javascript.** All WF blogs on a multi-user instance show up on a path, e.g. `example.com/my-blog/`, so custom Javascript can be a security risk. We also disable the custom Javascript on path-based Write.as blogs, but allow that for blogs on subdomains or custom domains. - **Email subscriptions.** This is coming to WriteFreely in v1.0! - **Automated password resets**. This is dependent on an email system being in place. It should arrive in v1.0, along with email subscriptions. - **eBook Downloads**. This feature is still incomplete, but we want to bring it to WF once it covers all the basics. - **[Write.as Labs](https://write.as/labs).** This is our test ground, where we try out new potential features before launching them for everyone. The idea for _successful_ features is to eventually bring them to WF. I’ll update this over time, as things change. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.write.as/t/differences-between-write-as-and-writefreely/648)._