Ask HN: Are AMP pages a good or bad thing?

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I've thought that when Google has ditched AMP from search results few years ago ( https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-retires-amp-icon-survey/406770/) that sites will stop using AMP. But they didn't. What is the purpose of AMP pages this days?

If you are developing web sites do clients ask you to implement AMP?

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From the viewpoint of "reader" applications that incorporate web text such as

https://www.getupnext.com/

AMP is a very good thing because AMP HTML is clean and very easy to dejunkify. My personal agent YOShInOn (basically a smart RSS reader) is about to get the ability to work as a bookmark manager and from the viewpoint of ingesting content into an A.I., AMP is just what the doctor ordered.

I've never looked at AMP at that way, as cleaner version of the web site.

Because presumably those sites accepted the value proposition and aren't in a hurry to throw money at ripping all those features out?

I don't know what is the cost of keeping AMP running. I guess that there is no cost once it is up and running. It makes sense what you say.

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