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Comment by skeletal88 | Hacker News Reader

Yes, I fucking hate it. Every time I search for something on mobile and the result is something from reddit I only get to see only a part of the first post and some of the comments, to read more I have to click "read more". Why would this ever be helpful to anyone? What purpose does it serve other than waste the users time and make him do more clicks?

Also - has anyone ever been happy to land on an AMP page, and think, "wow, this is really useful, I'm glad I'm on this weird page, instead of the original one" ?

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Isn't that reddit's fault?

I tend to click on AMP results in searches because they always load so much faster.

I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I do think that the stated purpose of having an easily cacheable and loadable webpage is a good one.

AMP versions are often inferior because AMP isn’t actually HTML. You can’t even use an <img/> tag. So you have to develop an alternate version of every page for SEO. Inevitably a lot of companies don’t have the resources to actually do that so you end up with half finished, half implemented AMP versions.

When I click a Reddit link, I expect to be logged in as myself with the ability to vote & comment directly. Instead I land on an easily cacheable page that asks me to download the Reddit app without fail.

Reddit is already fast, Reddit does not benefit from AMP - except by putting that "This page looks better in the app!" modal back in the face of people that have otherwise disabled it via their user settings.

I agree with you but that's not AMP's fault is it?

As far as I understand, when you land on an AMP page, you get the same (cached) page that everyone else gets. Which is basically a shortened version of what you would see if you were not logged in. So while it may not be AMP's fault, AMP enables/encourages the behavior.

If the AMP page is showing everyone the same thing, then of course I won't see Reddit with my user settings (old mobileweb, do not ask me about the app, etc), and of course trying to interact with the page will redirect me somewhere else. If I could opt out of AMP to avoid this issue, I would.

I don't think the behavior on the actual reddit site is any better on mobile.

Especially in the early days I was really happy about the AMP pages, because the publishers haven't yet managed to cram so much garbage into them as they have into their regular pages. I don't need e.g. a sticky video player playing some irrelevant video just to create space for a video ad.

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