Back when the site was having the troubles with connectivity I put together an emergency Discord:
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.discord.com
It's not in use cause... Discord.
But the invite link is above. Might be a good staging area in the event this site goes down.
You and I both post under the same handles on TPU. That's where we should go when the time comes. Good crew over there.Posted this in the other AT closing down Thread. Not a bad idea to make an account and get onto discord JUST IN CASE this site goes down, then regroup on Reddit or some other forum that has a good vibe.
sadly the most influential platform in 2024 - by far - is reddit.Some options not yet mentioned in no particular order:
overclockers.com - Used to be a premier enthusiast site but nearly died after the founder left and the tech world changed over time. Main site still limps along and the forum has a small but dedicated bunch maintaining it.
overclockers.co.uk - Very active forum, not the strictest moderation. Site is part of a computer parts store in the U.K. so I imagine it will be around as long as DiY computers are a thing.
linustechtips.com - Very active forum. Not exactly my type of crowd and I'll leave it at that.
realworldtech.com - Very technically heavy discussions. I don't visit too often just because the forum format is horrendous (IMO).
reddit.com - Uhhh, that's all.
As little SEO traffic as it might get, the outbound link farming from Anandtech should be pure gold. They could sell 10 permalinks per year and pay for hosting.We get good traffic here. Especially since we have made the new cycle frequently and get attribution in youtube vids. I surmise there is a strong enough financial incentive to keep us around. They have to know most of us would not go to Tom's. I will not be associated with that place. I'll spend more time at TPU. It's a bit more wild and woolly there, but when you don't have to police it, it is strictly for the LULZ.
The Zen 5 speculation thread has over 4 million views alone. No guessing what the corpos will do, but I'd be surprised if they killed us off anytime soon. It's possible we outperform the main site on visitors every month. I invite our corpo overlords to confirm or deny it.RIP AT. May the forums continue on, for awhile at least.
That's been predicted since the PS3/360 days. Yet desktops account for 9 figures in total install base despite only being 20% of the market. PC gaming was worth 46 billion last year. Desktops are part of that. The lack of PC gaming content here is probably one of the primary factors driving this site's decline in traffic.IMHO AT had by far The Best coverage for all desktop computer technology and its overlaps
but soon desktops won't be a thing, the world has changed a lot. phones, laptops, handhelds, cloud, AI.
it's a natural course.
The Zen 5 speculation thread has over 4 million views alone
That's been predicted since the PS3/360 days. Yet desktops account for 9 figures in total install base despite only being 20% of the market. PC gaming was worth 46 billion last year. Desktops are part of that. The lack of PC gaming content here is probably one of the primary factors driving this site's decline in traffic.
Reddit being successful does not preclude these forums surviving. Your speculation about the Zen 5 thread is also incorrect, as the Apple, Meteor Lake, and Alder Lake threads all have millions of views too.that thread has been the Eye of the Cyclone for lack of a specific term - when a specific space on the internet achieves some kind of critical mass and gains the attention of 'everyone'
big reason for that was leakers , then momentum / update frequency / drama
but in this case 'everyone' is insiders and editors from 50 other sites who distill the news into small articles, which then gain more attention as they are more easily discoverable on 2024 internet, unlike traditional forums
i.e. 4 mil views is nothing compared to a 50k subreddit where they get these numbers on the regular TBH
you can imagine how many millions views a 500k subreddit gets on the regular
Bruh, workstations, office PCs, and crappy OEM prebuilts are the majority of desktop sales.100%, vast majority of remaining desktop enthusiasts are pc gamers, basically the main remaining use case for desktops
The Zen 5 speculation thread has over 4 million views alone. No guessing what the corpos will do, but I'd be surprised if they killed us off anytime soon. It's possible we outperform the main site on visitors every month. I invite our corpo overlords to confirm or deny it.
It's clear Tom's strangled the main site for their own survival. Let's see if they come back to finish the job. They say the killer always returns to the scene of the crime.
I loved that site. RIP!Xbit Labs,
I loved that site. RIP!
RIP Anandtech.
The future is Gamers Nexus I surmise.
Yes, please! Now that I'm back and missing everything that isn't stickied... and most that is... but still...Would you guys like this stickied? Or do you think it would be more likely to be missed that way?
That's one for one against so far.Yes, please! Now that I'm back and missing everything that isn't stickied... and most that is... but still...
You and I both post under the same handles on TPU. That's where we should go when the time comes. Good crew over there.
No idea why... maybe micro-spelling, like micro-code, fixes everything?That's one for one against so far.
And what is the deal with fools calling HUB AMD Unboxed? Steve has been absolutely destroying AMD the last couple of months.
FEb 2012, and this is your first post ! and maybe close to last ? Sad, but congrats on posting.This news is devastating and the site will surely be missed. RIP.