Reddit is Dropping AMP

As part of its continuing quest to alienate all its long-time users provide a better user experience to everyone, Reddit recently announced a slew of changes.

Buried in amongst all the hullabaloo from whinging ungrateful brats thoughtful comments from people with justifiable concerns, was this snippet from a Reddit employee:

An Improved Web Experience - Reddit

Long time readers will remember that I resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee having been a long time critic of the project.

AMP was an interesting idea (what if we made HTML fast again?!) and brought forth some interesting technologies (like Signed Exchanges) - but it ended up being a re-invented WAP⁰ which routed everything through a single point of failure.

I genuinely hate to see projects fail - but I can't help but hope this is the start of more people realising that giving unfettered control to an abusive monopoly like Google isn't a good decision.