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Hopefully other sites that normally have a logged in experience will follow. The Reddit AMP experience is, uh...lousy. The end-user experience on news sites

by tyingq 5y ago

Hopefully other sites that normally have a logged in experience will follow. The Reddit AMP experience is, uh...lousy. The end-user experience on news sites is fine for end users, but not great for the publishers. I suspect, though, they will take longer to move away...not a lot of capital around for them to spend on that. I thought AMP was a trojan horse from the beginning. Happy to see it dying off.

joconde 5y ago
AMP reddit's only useful feature is the button that links to the non-AMP page. It's so useless, you can't read more than the first two comments on it, you get sent to the normal version if you expand. Why does it even exist?
- red_trumpet 5y ago
  I'd guess for the SEO?
- 0x00000000 5y ago
  On my phone, the stupid dialogue with the button that is supposed to slide up gets stuck like a quarter of the way so I can’t even click it until I refresh.
- garfieldnate 5y ago
  The complaint for me is even worse: I regularly read on a kind of old iPad (Safari) and those links don't even work for me. This renders the sight unusable, as basically all conversation is hidden.
toomuchtodo 5y ago
If you’re on iOS, I highly recommend the Apollo client [1] as well as the Safari extension [2] that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pryy44/megathread_apple_releases_iosipados_15/hdmf049/?context=1 https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pryy44/megathread_ap...
- acheron 5y ago
  > the Safari extension that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo oh, I didn't realize that was something that existed. thanks, that will help.
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  - deergomoo 5y ago
    Same dude has an app that redirects all AMP links to their non-AMP versions, so you can eliminate it entirely. https://amplosion.app https://amplosion.app
- jakemal 5y ago
  Is there an equivalent extension to open Hacker News links in an app on iOS? I'm currently using Hacker, but would be willing to switch for this feature.
Rygu 5y ago
Am not getting AMP Reddit links anymore in search results. In Europe.
summm 5y ago
It was terrible for end users as well.
- tyingq 5y ago
  I was trying to give some grace that a lightweight terrible AMP page might be better than a 100Mb newsorg.com page.
slig 5y ago
Reddit web experience is horrible by design. They don't want you browsing using your browser.
AlexandrB 5y ago
> ...not a lot of capital around for them to spend on that. I feel a little bad for publishers. This is the second[1] time in recent memory they've followed the pied piper of a big tech company into wasting money on ultimately useless ventures. I hope someone in management learns a lesson from this and is more skeptical of FAANG in the future. [1] The first time being the Facebook video push that was based on faulty metrics (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-video-metric-for-two-years-1474586951 https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-vide...).
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  They're also the folks that decided to host user-hostile ads (full-screen overlays, autoplay video, showing those ads to paying* customers). At some point you've gotta just say they're getting what they deserve. * typo. trying out a new keyboard, SwiftKey. so far so bad.

by tyingq 5y ago

joconde 5y ago

AMP reddit's only useful feature is the button that links to the non-AMP page. It's so useless, you can't read more than the first two comments on it, you get sent to the normal version if you expand. Why does it even exist?

red_trumpet 5y ago
I'd guess for the SEO?
0x00000000 5y ago
On my phone, the stupid dialogue with the button that is supposed to slide up gets stuck like a quarter of the way so I can’t even click it until I refresh.
garfieldnate 5y ago
The complaint for me is even worse: I regularly read on a kind of old iPad (Safari) and those links don't even work for me. This renders the sight unusable, as basically all conversation is hidden.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

If you’re on iOS, I highly recommend the Apollo client [1] as well as the Safari extension [2] that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575 [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pryy44/megathread_apple_releases_iosipados_15/hdmf049/?context=1 https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pryy44/megathread_ap...

acheron 5y ago
> the Safari extension that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo oh, I didn't realize that was something that existed. thanks, that will help.
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- deergomoo 5y ago
  Same dude has an app that redirects all AMP links to their non-AMP versions, so you can eliminate it entirely. https://amplosion.app https://amplosion.app
jakemal 5y ago
Is there an equivalent extension to open Hacker News links in an app on iOS? I'm currently using Hacker, but would be willing to switch for this feature.

Rygu 5y ago

Am not getting AMP Reddit links anymore in search results. In Europe.

summm 5y ago

It was terrible for end users as well.

tyingq 5y ago
I was trying to give some grace that a lightweight terrible AMP page might be better than a 100Mb newsorg.com page.

slig 5y ago

Reddit web experience is horrible by design. They don't want you browsing using your browser.

AlexandrB 5y ago

> ...not a lot of capital around for them to spend on that. I feel a little bad for publishers. This is the second[1] time in recent memory they've followed the pied piper of a big tech company into wasting money on ultimately useless ventures. I hope someone in management learns a lesson from this and is more skeptical of FAANG in the future. [1] The first time being the Facebook video push that was based on faulty metrics (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-video-metric-for-two-years-1474586951 https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-vide...).

notreallyserio 5y ago
They're also the folks that decided to host user-hostile ads (full-screen overlays, autoplay video, showing those ads to paying* customers). At some point you've gotta just say they're getting what they deserve. * typo. trying out a new keyboard, SwiftKey. so far so bad.