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robinberjon dmarti johnwilander FirefoxPreview I haven't checked in a little while but it looks to me like Twitter is not using their own AMP Cache (the only *known* AMP caches are Google's and Cloudflare). So I checked with a POST to the Google AMP Cache API and...Permalink On twitter.com
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robinberjon dmarti johnwilander FirefoxPreview ...the broken version of the story causing our confusion is indeed the Google Cache hosted one. So yeah, Twitter is showing AMPs from the Google AMP Cache.Permalink On twitter.com
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robinberjon dmarti johnwilander FirefoxPreview I was actually just digging into the idea of hosting my own AMP Cache but Google makes it so easy and all the scripts are on their systems. If you built your own you'd have to be pulling updates from formal AMP releases yourself and also figuring out some way to handle cache...Permalink On twitter.com
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robinberjon dmarti johnwilander FirefoxPreview Not to mention it would mean storing an immense amount of data long term for someone like Twitter. Using Google's AMP Cache offloads all the work to Google so, while there are lots of philosophical reasons why this is bad, it makes sense from a biz perspective to just use GooglePermalink On twitter.com
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robinberjon dmarti johnwilander FirefoxPreview Weird how the system design lends itself to centralization eh?On twitter.com
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