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> TL of AMP here Hello. Sorry, but I have to express my deep disgust for what you do. "Give us your content and we'll rank you higher' is the opposite of what
by TekMol 9y ago
> TL of AMP here
Hello. Sorry, but I have to express my deep disgust for what you do. "Give us your content and we'll rank you higher' is the opposite of what made the web and Google awesome.
If you care about user experience, downrank pages based on CPU usage, Memory usage, number of tcp/ip connections, number of domains connected, number of ips connected, number of bytes transferred, percentage of time that the UI is non-responsive and so on.
Trying to force the web into your little AMP cage is a terrible idea. It's the Facebook way of doing things. Are you really so afraid that you have to join the crooks? Would you have managed to take such a big part of the pie from Microsoft if you had been afraid of them and played their game?
Don't fight oppression with oppression. Fight it with freedom. Get rid of that AMP crap.
- sangnoir 9y ago> Don't fight oppression with oppression. Fight it with freedom. Get rid of that AMP crap. The only problem I have with AMP is that (google search) users can't turn it off. Me - I love AMP. You would love it too if you had to browse the internet on shitty third-world 3G connections(if you're lucky! Otherwise you're stuck on EDGE or GPRS). Not all CDNs are equal when browsing from less developed countries. AMP is great for the next billion internet users, not so much for the HN crowd who don't mind multi-MB page loads without worrying about timeouts. Google should make AMP opt-out so that those who can afford to turn it off have the choice.
- pucado 9y agoI can't agree with this enough. Even though I have a 100Mbps unlimited plan, doesn't mean everyone can and will have it. I can't say I love AMP, but I definitely support it. Purely from the reach it can potentially have if everyone does start using is great. Everybody is already optimizing so that they get crawled by Google, better faster and more efficiently. This is the logical next step. From a ranking perspective, I think it's important that the HN community stops thinking just in terms of geographical metrics. Yes, in the US, UK etc where our offices are it gets blotched. But our next users are not going to be there from these countries. If at all, being a PM for a global product here, tomorrow's users, paying or free will be from probably from a country where AMP users would be the most impressionable today.
- TekMol 9y agoYou would love it too if you had to browse the internet on shitty third-world 3G connections I did not say I don't like lightweight pages. I say enforce them via ranking down the heavy ones. Not by blackmailing publishers to hand over their content.
- niutech 9y agoThis is why I am developing the AMP Browser (http://ampbrowser.com http://ampbrowser.com) - it is a godsend in a slow 2G/EDGE network.