what I need from Vox to become my primary blog

With all the drama of LiveJournal introducing commercial advertizing, I started to feel uncomfortable about keeping a paid account, and started to consider free/better alternatives. Unfortunately, Vox doesn't look like a viable alternative. It could be, if it implements the following features:

1. proper support for HTML: not all the tags are supported, in particular the bulleted lists didn't work, and it's still not possible to edit posts in raw HTML. Oh and apparently the editor doesn't allow nested lists. But it doesn't matter because the editor sucks anyway.
   
2. full support for the Opera browser
3. performance improvement - now because of all the funky javascript features it's too slow even via ADSL
4. fully configurable themes/layouts, or at least a theme/layout which I'd actually like
5. a local client for Linux, similar to LogJam in functionality (I personally care only for Linux, but of course there should be clients at least for Windows and Mac as well)
   
6. a feature or 3rd-party program for making full backup of the blog, together with comments
7. a lightweight interface for mobile browsing, similar to LJ mobile
8. a statistics program similar to LJ toys
9. an option to exclude the blog from search engines indexing
10. user communities (not terribly important, and I never participate much anyway, but it's more fun to have them than not to have)
    

I can imagine the possibility of 6) 7) and 10), and even 2) being implemented, but I don't believe they'll ever get to the rest of it. It could be that they don't *want* the tech-savvy users to use Vox - it's easier to control those who don't know better, and accept all the "shiny new features" as a god-given gift.

Also I know there are ads on Vox - I don't care much because I use ad-blocker and don't see them, but it would be kind of embarassing to show your blog to friends.

Better alternatives :

• a WordPress blog hosted on my own site - full customisation, full control, oh my ! the drawback is that without the mechanism of friends/neighbourhood, nobody would ever read it ;) and of course there are no privacy controls (well I can require the users to login - but again, nobody would ever bother).
  
• Greatest Journal - IMHO the best LJ clone, is fully free and offers most of the LJ functionality - the drawback is that hardly anybody would read it, I'm not that charismatic to convince all my friends to move from LJ to GJ ;)
• Other LJ clones - none except GJ look incredibly better.