Good-bye?- Anandtech

[DrMrLordX]

Red Squirrel has a forum we could invade.

Yes he does. He advertised that in the forum issues thread back when we were having connection problems. And it should fit us like a glove.

 

[highland145]

Red Squirrel has a forum we could invade.

Rightys only. Catch you suckers later.



And...I didn't know that.

 

[videogames101]

As the internet changed, this forum has always felt like it was lost in time. I haven't posted daily in many years but I always come back to visit. Would be a shame if it disappeared, so many years after the great fusetalk migration.

 

[IronWing]

With no main site comments, what are the AMD fanboys going to do with their rage?

 

[NTMBK]

Anand must have made a truckload of money from his Apple work by now; is it too late for him to buy back the site? I'd love to see his take on the latest tech 🥲

 

[DrMrLordX]

As the internet changed, this forum has always felt like it was lost in time.

It's funny because the modern audience still clearly reads it. It was hilarious watching sites cover faux posts in the Zen5 speculation thread as credible leaks.

@NTMBK

If he's patient and waits a few months, he can probably get it for a song.

 

[evanevanevan]

Just made an account hoping that @Ryan Smith might see this little write-up I did about one of my first encounters with AnandTech. Not trying to shill my blog though, so here's the short version:

Back in 2009 Ryan wrote this article about Ubuntu. I was 11 years old, and it captured my imagination. That AnandTech article played a part in kickstarting my childhood obsession with tinkering with computers and electronics. Long story short, all that tinkering ended up laying the foundation for much of my career and hobbies.

Almost exactly 15 years later, the same guy writes the announcement that AnandTech is closing their doors. It's funny how these things come full-circle. I'll miss Anandtech.

 

[AdamK47]

Joined up here to say 'sorry this happened' and 'I enjoyed reading Anandtech', glad to see long-time lifers still using the forum and beating the likes of moving into a subreddit or facebook group. I've lurked a long time as an anon coward, so thanks all for keeping on the real web all this time. Here's hoping this forum still goes a while longer yet.

Registration works?

 

[ZoSo]

Hate to see it stop!! Been coming here since the beginning! Good luck to everyone on the team, and thank you!!

 

[FelixDeCat]

I HATE video content now being favored over written content. It appeals to short attention spans and cannot possibly be as in depth as needed.

And the irony is the latest trend is to show every spoken word as it is spoken, word by word, just below the person speaking.

(Video Content Playing, person speaking)

* Persons head *

Hi.
This
is
me
speaking.
I know
you
came to
watch a
video
but to
make it
more "action packed"
now
every
word
I speak
will
be shown
below me
speaking.

 

[Relish8883]

Registration works?

I mean....it let me in, so "works" is a relative term, but it at least functions. Maybe the 'user registrations not working' was for site commenting users?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Registration works?

The registration for the main AT page is down and has been down for a while. AT Forums is hosted and managed separately and has been able to accept new users this whole time.

 

[Despoiler]

As the internet changed, this forum has always felt like it was lost in time. I haven't posted daily in many years but I always come back to visit. Would be a shame if it disappeared, so many years after the great fusetalk migration.

I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Passion projects can rarely exist under corporate control that have a profit goal. Anandtech never changed with the times. Their last Youtube video was 4 years ago. They have no social media presence. I get the interest in long form, deep dive journalism, but it never had to be one or the other. You can have day one reviews to catch traffic, social media for short attention spans, and then get into the nitty gritty later as it takes time. I also thought Anandtech missed a huge opportunity, even in their lane and in their heyday, to settle technical forum debates by reaching out to the engineers at the various companies to get the real truth that a lot of us wanted to understand. There are so many unanswered question about what does what and why that will forever remain unanswered.

 

[arcenite]

I heard the news today - wanted to check in and say hello.

Is there a discord anywhere you all hang out?

 

[NuclearNed]

the forums ought to declare a general amnesty for all the legions of banned old timers - just as a measure of goodwill

 

[Ns1]

the forums ought to declare a general amnesty for all the legions of banned old timers - just as a measure of goodwill

fiuck jerboy though.

 

[sdifox]

Writings in the wall guys, forums won’t last forever. We better start buying stuff from the links.

We do need a new generation of wounded monitor children.

 

[highland145]

the forums ought to declare a general amnesty for all the legions of banned old timers - just as a measure of goodwill

And in 36 min we'll be reminded why they were banned.

Perk loves me or else I'd have been gone a long time ago.

 

[WelshBloke]

I feel a great disturbance in the force

as if millions of nerds suddenly tutted in disappointment and were suddenly moderately peeved!

 

[highland145]

as if millions of nerds suddenly tutted in disappointment and were suddenly moderately peeved!

This is the most active thread in a while....

 

[sdifox]

Yes he does. He advertised that in the forum issues thread back when we were having connection problems. And it should fit us like a glove.

I am afraid you lot will have to switch to British spelling.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

We do need a new generation of wounded monitor children.

Funny just this week I noticed weird almost looks like drops of water inside my LCD screen, was going to try to figure out what’s wrong but I realized it’s at least 16 years old.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Where's the new forum backup plan?

I do have a forum, it's completely dead, but could act as a backup. https://www.anythingforums.com/

Used to run 4 different forums over the course of 20 years and recently combined them all into one. If traffic actually picked up I could easily add/rearrange categories as needed too.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Though I stopped coming here regularly in 2019 AT and its forums were part of daily routine for the better part of two decades. The site stopping regular publishing saddens me. I look back on it as it was kind of the end of the wild west internet era. New ideas, and new technology were abundant and there was a sense of community and even trust with random strangers.
I hope the best for Ryan and the rest of the remaining writing and publishing staff.

 

[misuspita]

I have been on this site from 2003-5,can't remember, and part of the forums later... It was my main source of tech news and deep diver which I rarely saw elsewhere. Also enjoyed Daily Tech spinoff until it was sold by Anand...

Would be damn shame to see the forums go... At some point they lost a bit of quality and the semiaccurate forums were gaining quite a bit of the things I loved about atforums. Then that boat suddenly and without notice capsized and the conversation quality here started to get back again.

I'd hate to see the place go, but if it ever does, I would also hate to see it transform into a discord channel. Discord has the unfortunate capability to transform too much discussions into spoken dialog and chitchat instead of more thoughtful forum type posting. So, I would very much agree the community switch to a reddit community rather than a discord community.