The Classic mode isn't going anywhere, but we don't want to encourage users to use it unless they explicitly understand that it provides a stripped-down basic template. (At least it allows their potentially-heavy site content to still be consumed on bandwidth-constrained devices.) To this end, we can re-purpose the Classic mode as if it is a mobile “Reader” mode similar to what some browsers offer today. The key difference about the Reader mode offered by the plugin, however, is that ads would still be possible (via amp-ad).

We may need to make it clear that this reader mode would not be presented to desktop visitors. Only visitors from services that surface AMP content would present users with this mode.

As a first step, the “Leave Comment” link in the Classic template could be just renamed to “Exit Reader Mode”.