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Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Yes! I’ve been having this issue for days but assumed it was just me. It is particularly frustrating for sites like Reddit where the AMP version is too aggressively cached and misses most of the recent comments.

Reddit implementing AMP seems such a bad decision, it defies the entire point of the site.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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post #25
post #3

Yes! I’ve been having this issue for days but assumed it was just me. It is particularly frustrating for sites like Reddit where the AMP version is too aggressively cached and misses most of the recent comments.

It feels like a solution to a problem no one was having, and now it's breaking the internet for people who never asked to use it.

Reddit mobile is ridiculously slow in a browser.

But they did it to themselves. i.reddit.com is fast as hell.

m.reddit.com loads 100x the Javascript.

Thus Amp fixes a probme they created bc reasons.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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post #23
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Not for google. They want to kill links.

What do they intend to replace them with?

As far as I know they have not proposed a replacement, only an intention to come up with one.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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post #22

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Could it be an iOS/Safari-specific bug?

The tweet says it's Chrome on iOS.

Which is still actually Safari/Webkit as foreign rendering engines are not allowed to ship on iOS.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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What do they intend to replace them with?

Javascript!

It's the year 2067, all websites are now npm packages. If you want to view a website, you must require it into your browser's package.json.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels like a solution to a problem no one was having, and now it's breaking the internet for people who never asked to use it.

Reddit mobile is ridiculously slow in a browser. But they did it to themselves. i.reddit.com is fast as hell. m.reddit.com loads 100x the Javascript. Thus Amp fixes a probme they created bc reasons.

Exactly, I am of the opinion that users and sites should figure it out. Google as a middleware for your entire user experience is a crazy idea for so many reasons.

Most of the JS is part of the different ad tech networks anyway. Hell, maybe that's their drive? Making it harder to have competiting ad tech?

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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What if it's not a bug, but Google testing user response (assuming Google is not stupid so Hanlon's razor may not apply)

Your post remined me of this twitter thread from one of mozzilla's developers:

https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871240432660480

Downthread:

""" And every time, they’d say, “oops. That was accidental. We’ll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks.” """

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