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yeah, as a user AMP is awesome. Dear website owners who wrote this letter: yes, amp has it's downsides but the reason we have amp is that the internet as a who
by notatoad 9y ago
yeah, as a user AMP is awesome.
Dear website owners who wrote this letter: yes, amp has it's downsides but the reason we have amp is that the internet as a whole failed to make fast sites. you had your chance for the previous ~30 years, and it's clear you couldn't be bothered to make speed a priority. I'm glad you're angry that AMP is eating your lunch, because maybe you'll actually start trying to compete now. But you aren't getting my sympathy.
- cobookman 9y ago+1 million It's especially noticable when you have poor service. Amp pages load fine, whereas just about everything else cant load.
- nobleach 9y agoThe whole point is, Google has shut down the competition. One Google has everyone on "the platform" they now get to mandate new rules. There may as well not BE any more web frameworks. The idea that we "did this to ourselves, and are now getting our just desserts" isn't going to fair well for anyone - not even the user. Google is now the gatekeeper and independent attempts to chip away at that foundation are almost a waste of time.
- guy98238710 9y agoPublishers had no (and still have no) motivation to make regular pages fast, because Google won't reward them for their effort with higher traffic. Imagine what headlines like "Google to rank popular content primarily by speed" would do to the web.