I don't like this from a more political view. Google gaining more and more control of people their sites. I won't even try to defend this position myself, there are already a ton of people who did: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ https://medium.com/@danbuben/why-amp-is-bad-for-your-site-and-for-the-web-e4d060a4ff31 https://medium.com/@uistephen/why-not-google-amp-cf1aeb974463 About the performance. 4x the page load speed seems like a welcome improvement. But you only notice this when you are on mobile googling the site and then clicking it and reading it, then go on. If you then want to like a post, you will have to go to the main site. If you want to engage in anyway, you will go to the main site. So when you go to the main site, you spend (1/8+1) times the data and the total loading is (1+1/4) of which it was originally. I feel like Hashnode is a place where people go on the site and read a couple of stories. Not a site that pops up in google and people quickly find an answer to a problem and go on. Therefore, I am not to excited about this change. However, I really like that there is active development of new features and hope the best.