I just found out about the "End of Anandtech" today. Because the Forum and overall membership is top-heavy with rational, intelligent people, I took refuge here exclusively ever since I joined, blowing off Facebook and other options. I was building computers. I needed Anandtech and the hardware forums for information. I began posting more on the Social Forums and less on the hardware / software forums.
They say the Forums will continue. I hope so. I don't have a problem migrating to Tom's Hardware.
But this is just another senior-citizen anxiety, adding to my other ongoing anxieties. Two family members under this roof died in the last 32 months. I'm alone, now. We have a criminal running again for president. I've finally come to grips with the fact that my COPD is a disability, even for walking a daily mile, and as I did yesterday -- chopping up piles of Juniper tree branches and twigs, bagging them and hauling them to the street for trash-pickup. [Will I be able to do that NEXT year?!] My local friends are all dying off, one at a time.
So the loss of Anandtech -- to whatever extent that may be -- is another misfortune thrown in my path. As such, it seems to be a bigger misfortune than it might have been 10 years ago. [I'd like to turn back the clock by 10 years, for sure.]