ATOT is Officially Dead

[olds]

There was a time when refreshing a page you could barely keep up with all the topics.
Now, there are stretches of minutes between posts.
RIP OT.

 

[amdhunter]

 

[hdeck]

it's been that way for a while

 

[Lifted]

Obama ruined everything.

 

[AlienCraft]

Obama ruined everything Bush didn't give away.

ftfy :thumbsup:

 

[SooperDave]

Used to need tabbed browsing to keep up. Not so much now.

 

[SKORPI0]

The good old days are gone.:'(

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Been this way for quite some time.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

We need a true off-topic, that is very lightly moderating by 'understanding' moderators

Your ad revenue would go through the roof.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Can someone tell me about the paid accounts that used to be here?
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>_>
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[Crusty]

Can someone tell me about the paid accounts that used to be here?
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>_>
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Servers used to be slow as shit, so they gave 'private' servers to the people who had subs.

 

[FallenHero]

Servers used to be slow as shit, so they gave 'private' servers to the people who had subs.

Also, no ads and an increased PM count.

I used to be one.

And ATOT died when they split up the forums into L&R, Garage, and Health. The healthy dose of trolling, light humor and stupid banter that went back and forth with those topics made AT fantastic. Now it's just...4chan lite, really lite...like, without any of the funny lite.

EDIT: I should also add that the famous "Change of culture" threat by the Mods is to me, the start of the epic fail that ATOT has become. So many good posters banned/left in the following days and weeks that it just became crap.

 

[Crusty]

Also, no ads and an increased PM count.

I used to be one.

And ATOT died when they split up the forums into L&R, Garage, and Health. The healthy dose of trolling, light humor and stupid banter that went back and forth with those topics made AT fantastic. Now it's just...4chan lite, really lite...like, without any of the funny lite.

Ah yeah.. that too. I never had a sub so I never got to experience it

Nowadays I spend most of my time on Reddit...

 

[xanis]

Ah yeah.. that too. I never had a sub so I never got to experience it

Nowadays I spend most of my time on Reddit...

I liked AT better when there weren't so many subtopics. A little crazier, but definitely more entertaining.

 

[Pliablemoose]

It's been trending that way for some time, some of the crazy rules don't help.

Some of the sub forums are pretty active and there are some great posters.

 

[Scouzer]

Repost. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=132708

Check how fast the forums used to move at 1AM:

And look at the wayback machine at peak time in 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20030812220258/forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38

This place is dying really badly... I wish I had another forum I liked as much.

 

[BoomerD]

Our old friend, HappyPuppy has identified the problem:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31142166&postcount=1

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31281207&postcount=1

 

[KGB]

It's been trending that way for some time, some of the crazy rules don't help.

Some of the sub forums are pretty active and there are some great posters.

No, ... there aren't.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Our old friend, HappyPuppy has identified the problem:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31142166&postcount=1

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31281207&postcount=1

LOL, I don't know where the whole Vagisil thing came from, but it's funny

 

[IAteYourMother]

LOL, I don't know where the whole Vagisil thing came from, but it's funny

It's only funny by comparison to the lame, boring crap that's posted nowadays.

 

[Pliablemoose]

It's only funny by comparison to the lame, boring crap that's posted nowadays.

It keeps getting him banned too

Must be one of those unwritten rules about fantasy violence & the creative use of Vagisil

 

[ElFenix]

Repost. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=132708

Check how fast the forums used to move at 1AM:

And look at the wayback machine at peak time in 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20030812220258/forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38

This place is dying really badly... I wish I had another forum I liked as much.

half those posts were probably me back then
:hmm:

 

[Newbian]

That's what happens when you chain so many up in your basement.

 

[Anubis]

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EDIT: I should also add that the famous "Change of culture" threat by the Mods is to me, the start of the epic fail that ATOT has become. So many good posters banned/left in the following days and weeks that it just became crap.

that was the main thing that drove people away

 

[Deeko]

We need a true off-topic, that is very lightly moderating by 'understanding' moderators

Your ad revenue would go through the roof.

Actually, back when AT had its most forum traffic, the rules were a LOT stricter.