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To those who think this could be a good idea: do some research on AMP, then reevaluate your opinion. To my mind, AMP is a content reassociation tool, not a con
by stevew20 9y ago
To those who think this could be a good idea: do some research on AMP, then reevaluate your opinion.
To my mind, AMP is a content reassociation tool, not a content distribution speedup tool. It succeeds in both, was designed as the former, and marketed as the latter. If Airbnb goes through with this folly, how exactly will they retain their business?
Google will be essentially filtering every booking that goes to Airbnb, controlling both the customer and the listings. I see most comments on HN are in agreement with this view, and those that aren't don't seem to meet the quality level normal to HN. Makes you wonder who exactly made this decision...
- fastball 9y agoI made my personal website AMP compatible. Took me an hour in total (including research) and in the future if I don't want the google amp overhead I can remove a single line of code and my website will run fine. FUD.
- dingo_bat 9y agoOr you could optimize your website and not depend on google at all forever.
- fastball 9y agoThe only thinking I'm depending on Google for is some post-loading. Otherwise AMP is just optimizations, most of them are just thinks I hadn't thought of before trying to make my site AMP compatible (things like only using hardware accelerated animations and such).