This is sad news. End of an era. One of the best technical review sites of its time.
Shut down announcement 10 years to the day from Anand Lal Shimpi retiring from AnandTech.
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
Submitted 4 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
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naticus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
solrize@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ian Cutress’s technical deep dives were amazing. After he left, the whole side went downhill.
leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 months ago
He’s still on YouTube, in case you didn’t know.
Cort@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah Dr potato put out a video today about the closure
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
TechTechPotato: AnandTech has Closed.
fox2263@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think I’ve been reading AnandTech since around 2000. Sad to see it go for sure!
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
🫡
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
F
SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Damn. I used to frequent that site all the time from my teenage years up through college and even relatively recently. Their articles were always very in-depth and well written.
nonailsleft@lemm.ee 4 months ago
He got us through the Tech Wars
comador@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Noooooo!
I’ve been following Anand since he only did youtube videos and was considered a n00b. Back then, competition from the likes of Kyle @ [H]ardOCP, AMDZone, TheInquirer (now theregister), Tomshardware and many others I honestly don’t remember off the top of my head really ruled the roost.
Anand made a name for himself in the company of some very tough competition.
Hats off to the man, he had a great run.
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“cmdrtaco”
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a great long while…
Time…is a very strange thing.
elboomy@feddit.org 4 months ago
While this is indeed sad, the brand was purchased by Future PLC in 2018, a huge and insanely profit-oriented publisher with brands like TechRadar, Tomshardware, iMore, WindowsCentral, AndroidCentral and many more under their roof, on tech alone. Anandtech was way too niche to be as profitable as Future had hoped, so it’s a miracle they kept them for six years. So, what’s next? I’m pretty sure Future will still keep the rights to the Anandtech brand, but the people who wrote for them are free to pursue their own ventures now, without pressure from big money publishers. This has precedent, albeit in a slightly different sphere. When The Escapist fired their editor in chief, everybody else left with him to start Second Wind, and so far, they seem to do just fine. There is hope!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Is it only me that sees such companies as a problem? This can only lead to enshittyfication in the long term.