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Discussion on: What are your thoughts on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)?

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ted carstensen

I still do most of my reading through RSS feeds, call me old fashioned.

When I encounter an AMP page, there's just something that feels off about them. That they show differently in search results cheapens the content to a degree. Not to mention the lack of publisher-owned branding. Recognizable type faces, colors, and logos are the strongest indicators of the reliability of the author/content, and you lose a lot of that.

Here's a video from an event I went to last year where Calvin French-Owen, the co-founder of Segment, gives a good primer on AMP pages. It's pretty clear why they exist, but a common refrain is to just make your own site not suck. heavybit.com/library/blog/get-ampd...