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Comment by TekMol | Hacker News Reader

My vote for a 'convert submitted amp links to normal links' automatism on HN. Or simply a block like 'You are trying to submit the amp version of a page. Please submit the original'.

By the way, shouldnt amp versions automatically have a 'Go to the real page' link on the top or something?

I see a totally absurd version of the page on my 30" monitor. With no obvious way to go to the normal page.

Not even the url has a clear indication where the normal version is. Guess you have to read it from the rel="canonical" link in the source code.

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I first noticed the weird no-margin page, but didn't bother looking at the URL but after:

> "font-weight: 400;">Musk said in an email on Monday...

I got suspicious. Took a look and stopped reading. Flagged the post. I don't know what else to do but GOOGLE you are reaching levels of EVIL.

As much as I'd love a reason to snip on AMP, that's also present in the full version.

AMP pages load faster on suboptimal internet. I'm pretty ok with OP having used this.

The irony. The original site loads instantly without JS but the amp one takes longer to load and will not display anything (also without JS).

From The Netherlands:

Original [1]: 585.51KB, load: 1.31s

AMP: 918.44KB, load: 1.56s

[1] http://www.thisisinsider.com/tesla-employees-reveal-how-they...

Thanks for posting that - the non-AMP original is significantly easier to read on my monitor due to its layout more suitable for larger screens.

Amp adds nothing to make a site faster. The opposite. It adds some mandatory libraries. It just imposes some restrictions on what a page can contain. So the version companies make to be included in amp might be smaller then their original version for that reason.

We should downrank slow bloated sites directly instead. Then companies would have an incentive to make their sites fast from the start.

I'm on mobile on 2G and the AMP version loads instantly, whilst the non-AMP one takes forever to load a ton of assets. In the end it doesn't matter much, but I personally do appreciate when a page is lighter and loads quickly. For instance, HN loads pretty fast even on crap, lossy connections.

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