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My unpopular opinion. I love AMP. Mobile internet for me ( maybe on worse devices ), was becoming a non-thing for me. AMP let's me check the news again. My opi

My unpopular opinion. I love AMP. Mobile internet for me ( maybe on worse devices ), was becoming a non-thing for me. AMP let's me check the news again. My opinion might be because I don't have much understanding of it as a framework, but from a non power user perspective, I've found the UX to be amazing.

Bahamut 6y ago
AMP in part made me switch to Apple News - it's buggy and doesn't respect browser history (major usability failure on Google's part).
- lonelappde 6y ago
  Did you like Google News content better? If not, why wasn't content quality a reason to switch before?
  - ninkendo 6y ago
    The content is essentially the same in both places: they're both just aggregating content from news providers. So you go with the one that has a non-awful UX. Apple news also lets you access paywalled content through a single subscription (News+), which is nice if that's your thing.
- macintux 6y ago
  Regrettably Apple News will occasionally drop sections of the content it doesn’t know how to render properly, leaving the news article bafflingly incomplete, and usually it’s not obvious that something is missing.
  - reaperducer 6y ago
    It is a problem, but depending on what publications you read, how often it happens can vary. The reason is that, like AMP, Apple News only supports a subset of HTML. It's up to the publishers to adhere to those limitations. Some choose not to make a special Apple version or change their main content to be Apple-friendly, so Apple News does what it can to show what it can. It's not ideal, but it's better than being reliant on Google. Also, if you see an article that doesn't look right, there's an option to report that article to Apple. One of the options is "Content missing."
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Apple News is kind of a meh walled garden of itself.
GhostVII 6y ago
For me, the UX is terrible on mobile. On my device it breaks the auto-hide behavior of the chrome address bar - normally when you scroll down the address bar hides, but with AMP only the thin AMP bar hides when scrolling down. On some websites they only display a portion of the website content on AMP (ex. Reddit, although it seems like they have fixed this now), so to see all of the website content I have to click out of the AMP page to view the full page, and then click again to expand whatever content I was trying to view in the first place. And when I want to view the original web page I have to click this little "i" icon to reveal the actual web page link rather than them just putting a link to the original web page in the amp header directly.
freedomben 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm an AMP hater but I legitimately want to hear the defense of AMP and I'm having a hard time finding it

Bahamut 6y ago

AMP in part made me switch to Apple News - it's buggy and doesn't respect browser history (major usability failure on Google's part).

lonelappde 6y ago
Did you like Google News content better? If not, why wasn't content quality a reason to switch before?
- ninkendo 6y ago
  The content is essentially the same in both places: they're both just aggregating content from news providers. So you go with the one that has a non-awful UX. Apple news also lets you access paywalled content through a single subscription (News+), which is nice if that's your thing.
macintux 6y ago
Regrettably Apple News will occasionally drop sections of the content it doesn’t know how to render properly, leaving the news article bafflingly incomplete, and usually it’s not obvious that something is missing.
- reaperducer 6y ago
  It is a problem, but depending on what publications you read, how often it happens can vary. The reason is that, like AMP, Apple News only supports a subset of HTML. It's up to the publishers to adhere to those limitations. Some choose not to make a special Apple version or change their main content to be Apple-friendly, so Apple News does what it can to show what it can. It's not ideal, but it's better than being reliant on Google. Also, if you see an article that doesn't look right, there's an option to report that article to Apple. One of the options is "Content missing."
saagarjha 6y ago
Apple News is kind of a meh walled garden of itself.

GhostVII 6y ago

For me, the UX is terrible on mobile. On my device it breaks the auto-hide behavior of the chrome address bar - normally when you scroll down the address bar hides, but with AMP only the thin AMP bar hides when scrolling down. On some websites they only display a portion of the website content on AMP (ex. Reddit, although it seems like they have fixed this now), so to see all of the website content I have to click out of the AMP page to view the full page, and then click again to expand whatever content I was trying to view in the first place. And when I want to view the original web page I have to click this little "i" icon to reveal the actual web page link rather than them just putting a link to the original web page in the amp header directly.

freedomben 6y ago

Thanks for sharing. I'm an AMP hater but I legitimately want to hear the defense of AMP and I'm having a hard time finding it