<story><title>I decided to disable AMP on my site</title><url>https://www.alexkras.com/i-decided-to-disable-amp-on-my-site/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sturmen</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of backlash against AMP on principle, which I agree with and support. However, as a non-principled web consumer, I think AMP pages are 10x better than the ad-filled, slow as molasses, jump-around-as-JavaSript-loads, video autoplaying, &amp;#x27;stories you might like&amp;#x27; suggested bullshit, auto-loading 20MB heaps of steaming garbage that current news sites are. I think that AMP is a stepping stone that shows the user experience that people want but lights a fire under web developers to give them that experience without relying on Google&amp;#x27;s walled garden. How many stories of &amp;quot;Company X made a great product Y, but Company X is anti-consumer&amp;#x2F;evil&amp;#x2F;eats puppies, so the OSS made their own and it has grown into something great&amp;quot; have you heard? I think AMP is another one.&lt;p&gt;The web has become bloated, where people use heavy JS frameworks like React to make their blog and then load 5MB of ad JS to load 10MB autoplaying videos. I dream of a day when static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll are the norm. Let&amp;#x27;s flex our muscles and make that happen and show the world that AMP is good but openness is better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boramalper</author><text>&amp;gt; However, as a non-principled web consumer, I think AMP pages are 10x better than the ad-filled, slow as molasses, jump-around-as-JavaSript-loads, video autoplaying, &amp;#x27;stories you might like&amp;#x27; suggested bullshit, auto-loading 20MB heaps of steaming garbage that current news sites are.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t need AMP to get rid of them though. We can appreciate that Google &lt;i&gt;encouraged&lt;/i&gt; developers to get rid of bloat &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;AND&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to opt-in for AMP, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t make AMP &lt;i&gt;technically&lt;/i&gt; superior. I think we should give a critique of ourselves and ask why did we wait for a corporation G to push us to get rid of the bloat we created?</text></comment>
<story><title>I decided to disable AMP on my site</title><url>https://www.alexkras.com/i-decided-to-disable-amp-on-my-site/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sturmen</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of backlash against AMP on principle, which I agree with and support. However, as a non-principled web consumer, I think AMP pages are 10x better than the ad-filled, slow as molasses, jump-around-as-JavaSript-loads, video autoplaying, &amp;#x27;stories you might like&amp;#x27; suggested bullshit, auto-loading 20MB heaps of steaming garbage that current news sites are. I think that AMP is a stepping stone that shows the user experience that people want but lights a fire under web developers to give them that experience without relying on Google&amp;#x27;s walled garden. How many stories of &amp;quot;Company X made a great product Y, but Company X is anti-consumer&amp;#x2F;evil&amp;#x2F;eats puppies, so the OSS made their own and it has grown into something great&amp;quot; have you heard? I think AMP is another one.&lt;p&gt;The web has become bloated, where people use heavy JS frameworks like React to make their blog and then load 5MB of ad JS to load 10MB autoplaying videos. I dream of a day when static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll are the norm. Let&amp;#x27;s flex our muscles and make that happen and show the world that AMP is good but openness is better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kavok</author><text>On iOS I usually find AMP pages to be less usable. It forces a bar at the top and I can&amp;#x27;t easily share the link. Sometimes sites don&amp;#x27;t seem to work at all. For a long time any Reddit link on the Google Search results just didn&amp;#x27;t load on iOS for me.&lt;p&gt;I run an adblocker and use reading mode frequently. I do not usually suffer any issues with ads even without AMP. It is solving a problem I do not have and creating more problems in the process.</text></comment>