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I feel like this response contains within it a great deal of contempt for average people and their problem solving ability.

Could you not just ask an LLM how one could host this website for free somewhere, and do the same for any logistical challenges that arise beyond that?

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People could do that. Or they can click "new doc" in Docs, start typing, then copy the URL and send it to a friend. Look at that, they published a page, no problem solving necessary. Thus people, no matter their ability, will probably default to that approach.

I don't think it's a value judgement to say one thing is easier than another and hence people will. Choose the easier thing.

If we want more folks to use and build websites, it needs to be Google-Docs level easy, otherwise people will use Google Docs.

Exactly this. I do find it kinda funny that Google Docs/Word and their ilk have HTML export options. Kind of a weird funny/sad anachronism. As if there was some hope that people would use Google Docs to make their own contributions to the independent web.

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