Yes but how long until their publisher corporate execs crunch the numbers for the cost of operating the servers and decide it isn't worth it to keep it going?

It sounds like a large crawl should be initiated at archive.ph and archive.org (Wayback Machine) to keep this info available to the public.

Yeah this is definitely a brand merger in some ways.

I imagine it might be due to profitability, too. I think the rate of articles has slowed down in the last 5 years, and I think losing Ian Cutress's analysis was also tough for their articles.

It feels like a lot of the hardware journalism these days has moved to YouTube, like Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed, TechTechPotato, Moore's Law Is Dead, etc.

I think Chips and Cheese seems to be the biggest site for detailed hardware analysis these days.

But Tom's Hardware is awful.

Any article I've seen from them has either been so low detail it feels like someone used ChatGPT 0.1 to write it, or it's so blatantly just and advertisement for whatever sponsor they're talking about.

Of course, that means AnandTech probably was still decent and since it was decent it cost money to run, so fuck it, let's just see how much we can get nvidia to pay us to post fluff pieces instead.

Anand la shimpi, the founder, left almost a decade ago, and that seems to have weakened it a good bit, then we got YouTube channels like GN and we just blast them into out feeds quickly because we don't care about the specific numbers as much as a broad brush.

I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it's a difference you can't always easily see unless you're trying to run over 4k and the game is jokingly badly optimized.

This made me nostalgic, so I just hopped back on techguy.org and logged in again. Member there for 22 years and haven't logged on in a decade, but they still had my little profile picture of Goku saved. Answered somebody's hardware question. I still got it! Lol

Yeah about the same, I visited /., anadtech, tom's, betanews, etc about daily maybe 20 years ago, but I haven't been to those in a decade for sure, except slashdot I still go there

I'm in the same boat, in the early days of Android (Galaxy S 1 days) I used to go to their site just as frequently as Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, etc. because they were on top of most new customizable ROMs if I remember right.

I haven't had a reason to go back since it has become increasingly more difficult to get a custom ROM on any Galaxy phone, and I almost completely forgot about the site until this announcement.

Wow I completely forgot that name!

Techreport, Hardocp, Anandtech. All killed by YouTube which is an objectively worse format for technical information.

It's implied that it was a decision by management. If I had to guess, it's related to money and/or the redundancy cause by the same parent company owning both Tom's Hardware and Anandtech.

Kind of unfortunate, since I always thought Anandtech had the better articles, but I guess this also preserves Anandtech's legacy in some ways.

Ian Cutress shared on his YouTube channel that the owners saw it as redundant to Toms Hardware even though Anandtech was far more focused on architecture. He went into some detail about how Anandtech was pushed to become more generalist and consumer oriented, so basically it was redundancy that they themselves created