Company
Date Published
Author
Rouven Weßling
Word count
1723
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The author, a developer, attempted to integrate Facebook's Instant Articles feature into their blog, which is built using Middleman and managed through Contentful. The process was daunting but not hard, mainly due to the structured content, and took approximately four and a half days to complete. The author had to address various issues, such as image rendering, code blocks, and video embedding, before submitting the site for review by Facebook. The review process itself took five days, and although it wasn't automated, the author was able to activate automatic publishing for future articles. Despite some challenges, the author believes that multi-platform publishing is the future and hopes that Facebook's platform will evolve to include more facilities for software-related writing.