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Hopefully other sites that normally have a logged in experience will follow. The Reddit AMP experience is, uh...lousy. The end-user experience on news sites is fine for end users, but not great for the publishers. I suspect, though, they will take longer to move away...not a lot of capital around for them to spend on that.

I thought AMP was a trojan horse from the beginning. Happy to see it dying off.

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If you’re on iOS, I highly recommend the Apollo client [1] as well as the Safari extension [2] that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pryy44/megathread_ap...

> the Safari extension that redirect all Reddit links into Apollo

oh, I didn't realize that was something that existed. thanks, that will help.

Same dude has an app that redirects all AMP links to their non-AMP versions, so you can eliminate it entirely.

https://amplosion.app

Is there an equivalent extension to open Hacker News links in an app on iOS? I'm currently using Hacker, but would be willing to switch for this feature.

AMP reddit's only useful feature is the button that links to the non-AMP page. It's so useless, you can't read more than the first two comments on it, you get sent to the normal version if you expand. Why does it even exist?

I'd guess for the SEO?

On my phone, the stupid dialogue with the button that is supposed to slide up gets stuck like a quarter of the way so I can’t even click it until I refresh.

The complaint for me is even worse: I regularly read on a kind of old iPad (Safari) and those links don't even work for me. This renders the sight unusable, as basically all conversation is hidden.

> ...not a lot of capital around for them to spend on that.

I feel a little bad for publishers. This is the second[1] time in recent memory they've followed the pied piper of a big tech company into wasting money on ultimately useless ventures. I hope someone in management learns a lesson from this and is more skeptical of FAANG in the future.

[1] The first time being the Facebook video push that was based on faulty metrics (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-vide...).

They're also the folks that decided to host user-hostile ads (full-screen overlays, autoplay video, showing those ads to paying* customers). At some point you've gotta just say they're getting what they deserve.

* typo. trying out a new keyboard, SwiftKey. so far so bad.

Reddit web experience is horrible by design. They don't want you browsing using your browser.

It was terrible for end users as well.

I was trying to give some grace that a lightweight terrible AMP page might be better than a 100Mb newsorg.com page.

Am not getting AMP Reddit links anymore in search results. In Europe.

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