Question so long and thanks for all the fish

[burninatortech4]

Choked up a little this morning. What a ride it's been....

 

[CouncilorIrissa]

reddit.com - Uhhh, that's all.

Reddit is a crappy alternative. Up/downvote system is cancer.

 

[Hitman928]

Reddit is a crappy alternative. Up/downvote system is cancer.

I didn't say they were all good options

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Reddit is a crappy alternative. Up/downvote system is cancer.

Yup, it induces group think and encourages karma farming.

Tom's has had so many shills contribute over the years. This is one of the more recent examples of jumping the shark levels of shilling -

 

[Thunder 57]

Hosting is paid for the next few months according to Dr. Cutress. I do hope they keep the forums.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

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.

 

[Mahboi]

I haven't been on AT very long, but clearly the effort was there and it was visible from the quality of the forum conversations.
Truly the embodiment of doing it your own way till the end.

Spoiler

When Toms will die, I will post this version instead:

 

[SiliconFly]

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.

Yep. Tom's isn't that good. I'm pretty sure many here won't like it there.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yep. Tom's isn't that good. I'm pretty sure many here won't like it there.

Like all tech forums there are cool and highly knowledgeable members there. It's the main site itself that spoils it for me.

 

[Mahboi]

No knowledge of how it would work finances-wise (I expect it wouldn't work at all) but I remember that Chips & Cheese wanted to extend itself with new writers. Could be at least a step out for some of the AT writers?

 

[Markfw]

When Anand left its gone downhill since. and the last few years, I am pretty sure that the number of Intel shills has not helped these forums. But I do hope the forum continues, even if the main site is off-line.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

No knowledge of how it would work finances-wise (I expect it wouldn't work at all) but I remember that Chips & Cheese wanted to extend itself with new writers. Could be at least a step out for some of the AT writers?

Most are free lance now anyways I think. The staff had to know the writing was on the wall *bad pun* It's obvious that the doc executed an exit strategy. I should think the rest were already tuning up their resumes and leaning on industry contacts/networking.

 

[dullard]

I was wondering why there was no post, not even a mention of Hot Chips 2024.

And, since I haven't seen anyone post this yet: dibs on all the gear!

 

[ClockHound]

Oh man... The day I track down my lost Anand login, they shut down the place.

Thanks for all the overclocked DDR memories and X58 Forever bumperstickers!

 

[Mahboi]

Most are free lance now anyways I think. The staff had to know the writing was on the wall *bad pun* It's obvious that the doc executed an exit strategy. I should think the rest were already tuning up their resumes and leaning on industry contacts/networking.

"the doc" meaning Ian Cutress?

 

[Thunder 57]

"the doc" meaning Ian Cutress?

Yes. He talks about it in the video I linked above. He doesn't pull any punches. It's a good watch.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Any suggestion as to where to migrate?

I like the Arstechnica Forums. Definitely better than Reddit.

 

[Thibsie]

I was rudely reminded of how poor the journalism at Tom's is when I looked at their NH-D15 G2 review. They explicitly remark there's a rattling noise and they think there's a defect, and if it was any other brand of cooler they would contact the mfg about it and get a replacement before moving forward with publishing the review. But because it's Noctua, they will not.

Mind you, 1 month prior to this Tom's ran an article about the well-known rattle issue plaguing the newly release NH-D15 G2 coolers, so they should have clearly known it was a defect that is recognized by noctua and contacted them for a statement regarding a possible fix, and potentially even received a prototype of whatever the fix is to use for review testing.

Tom's. Has always been between inconsistencies, incompetence and outright 'I will please A or B 'cos they pay well '.

 

[SiliconFly]

I like the Arstechnica Forums. Definitely better than Reddit.

Everything is better than reddit.

 

[Thibsie]

Yep. Tom's isn't that good. I'm pretty sure many here won't like it there.

Never. Simple.

 

[Mahboi]

27 Club - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Rockstar website.

 

[CropDuster]

Oh man... The day I track down my lost Anand login, they shut down the place.

Thanks for all the overclocked DDR memories and X58 Forever bumperstickers!

Read this forum for years and the cheap X58 Xeon thread is what got me to join and start posting. Sad to see this news today.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Watched the doc's vid. Exactly what I thought was going down. Stoked to hear he has been helping chips and cheese prosper and getting them the contacts. They are the heir apparent.

As he noted the main site traffic was garbage. I rarely even go there unless to access an old article. My bookmark is for the forums. I surmise most of you come directly here instead of via the front page too.

It was effectively dead to me when the doc left. He was the last bastion of the non corpo Anandtech.

 

[Mahboi]

On the money about the bookmark.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Would you guys like this stickied? Or do you think it would be more likely to be missed that way?