Afaik, if I do a web build, I'd need a server to link up clients, wouldn't I?
But yes, I agree, if I wanted more people to play it, in-website playable is the way to go (just wasn't possible for this one afaik)
And yea, checking out codebase is a smaller download too. But you need to have your own build tools set up (ups and downs /shrug)