Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web - Recode

Platforms like Facebook's Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web - Recode: One of the wonderful things about the rise of the web, twentysomething years ago, was the way in which it democratized publishing — suddenly, anyone with an idea could set up a website and make it available to anyone. Early on, publishing online required at least a rudimentary understanding of code. To be an online writer meant you also had to be a coder. But, services quickly emerged that created WYSIWYG editors for online publications, so literally anyone who had used a word processor could create online content.

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