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Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by kowdermeister on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:02PM (#18726641)
These are great, but what's the solution for those who don't even know what HTML is? They are the vast majority of FB users.

I don't think anyone who taken web development a bit seriously have any problem to publish something online independently.

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by josephcohen on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:09PM (#18728644)
Going to throw our hat in the ring here. We built Universe (http://apple.co/Universe) for precisely this reason: to enable everyone to build their place on the internet, without touching code, all from a phone.

You can see some of the sites created with it here: http://showcase.onuniverse.com

Here's more about us: http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by kowdermeister on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:17PM (#18730461)
Wow, this is great, I'll give it a try. I love the artistic touch too.

You basically made a CMS and web designer app for the web on mobile, which is 90% with the users, this is a wonderful concept.

Is this the new Tumblr? :)

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by paulddraper on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:01PM (#18727271)
At some point of ease, you pretty much just have MySpace/Facebook.

And that's what I always think about these conversations... What separates hassle-free push button website creation and publishing from MySpace/Facebook?

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by pmlnr on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#18727987)
WordPress recently introduced a new editor, Gutenberg - that is certainly a point and click experience, no HTML involved.

One can get Microsoft Office or LibreOffice and export to HTML.

Or write a text file and upload it with SFTP.

On the other hand, HTML is really not that hard, and a bit of sweat put into your creation is not bad either in my personal opinion: https://petermolnar.net/internet-emotional-core/

Re:We should replace Facebook with personal websites by fredsted on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:11PM (#18727380)
You don't need to know HTML to make a Web site with a CMS like WordPress.