Thanks for the kind words. DT was my life for 8 years (nearly 9). Put my blood sweat and tears into sight after working at AT for 7 doing the news.
It's a sad day indeed, but time marches on.
It's sad to witness the removal of DT from Anand's page
A lot of us never accessed Dailytech.com, but used to follow each and every news through AT's site.
Or Reddit, if you like. Our preference would be that you hang out, and scope things out for a bit before bailing. Very little (if anything) will change.
It was nice while it lasted. At least I got over 15 years out of these forums.
The inevitable monetization of the forums will kill it. It will be a slow strangle of a death as it creeps in. No amount of smoothing over by a "community manager" can sway me away from that belief. A lot of us have been here a long time and observed the destruction of other communities. It will happen. Slowly, it will happen. There's no way around it.
Why would this be a sign that the site is going downhill? Is it common for companies like Purch to say they aren't going to change anything, and then change a bunch of stuff anyway?
What a deal. Purch has paid a good sized sum to acquire anandtech. But they're doing it solely to invest greater resources into it and to ensure I'm informed with the latest in award winning content that includes, but is not limited to, simplified consumer reviews and ads that better tailor themselves to my needs for the sake of better enriching my fast paced technology lifestyle. Thank you Purch!!
You seem unusually approachable and logical. I'm thinking you should probably appoint yourself as the new forum director/overlord here.
Where did all the quality people go?
You guys are well in-hand with Perknose and esquared so I won't be stepping on any toes. I'm here to offer help and resources when asked for and when needed.
if you could link those articles that would be great, because even as a young teenager I was able to tell Tom's was crap over a decade ago.There's no bias by the editorial team. And I've seen the items posted by the AT guys, and the same level of journalistic integrity goes into their work that has gone into Tom's.
You are, actually, pretty spot-on there. But this is organic with pretty much any and every site out there. Churn happens, attrition happens. Tom's is definitely not the same place it was back in 1996, but neither is Anandtech
Ugh, I seriously hop from tech forum to tech forum and thought I had found my happy place with Anandtech.
Left OCforums because of the mods banning everyone and it getting pretty boring.
Left Hardforums because the mods seemed like dicks and was tired of all the 15 year olds talking about "hookers and blow"
Now Anandtech is going to possibly suck? Say it ain't so!
"Purch’s industry-leading combination of high-quality content and integrated commerce experiences makes complex buying decisions easy for more than 100 million consumers and professionals monthly. With the acquisition of AnandTech, Purch furthers its mission to simplify purchase decisions for in-market tech consumers by adding one of the most popular computer components, hardware, and mobile reviews sites to a brand portfolio that already includes category heavyweight, Tom’s Hardware."
I don't need anyone to simplify my purchase decisions at all. I only want to read how the hardware works when tested or tested against other hardware of the same like. That's it. The rest is just marketing corporate speak to influence my buying decisions. That was not the original intent of this site or Tom's.
Does this mean we can bring back Mosh too?
Why would this be a sign that the site is going downhill? Is it common for companies like Purch to say they aren't going to change anything, and then change a bunch of stuff anyway?
yes.
Maybe AlienBabelTech is where to go next?
The forum that shall not be named is better. Would you seriously want to post at a place McOWNED runs?
so what we need to do is find the next best review site with associated forum ASAP and make sure everyone is aware that's the next best thing. Personally, I basically got rid of everything after I found AT because it was pretty much all I needed.Oh yeah, all the freaking time. They always say "oh we don't want to step on toes or try to fix what isn't broken", but gradually changes are made and corners are cut and within 6-18 months everything's different (and usually worse).
I've seen it a few times in a few different jobs, usually the new management thinks they can compete with shithole countries (or sites, in this case) if they just cut enough corners and understaff enough departments, completely ignoring the fact that we had retained customers specifically because we didn't cut corners or sell a crap product.
I'm not really interested in hearing what the new management has to say; I'm much more interested in seeing what this place looks like this time next year.
I was wondering this, myself
And you forgot Mosh!
Also, does this mean an onslaught of intolerable trolls, with all of the new exposure?
so what we need to do is find the next best review site with associated forum ASAP and make sure everyone is aware that's the next best thing. Personally, I basically got rid of everything after I found AT because it was pretty much all I needed.