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videogames101

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Aug 24, 2005
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As the internet changed, this forum has always felt like it was lost in time. I haven't posted daily in many years but I always come back to visit. Would be a shame if it disappeared, so many years after the great fusetalk migration.
 

NTMBK

Lifer
Nov 14, 2011
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Anand must have made a truckload of money from his Apple work by now; is it too late for him to buy back the site? I'd love to see his take on the latest tech 🥲
 
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evanevanevan

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Aug 30, 2024
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Just made an account hoping that @Ryan Smith might see this little write-up I did about one of my first encounters with AnandTech. Not trying to shill my blog though, so here's the short version:

Back in 2009 Ryan wrote this article about Ubuntu. I was 11 years old, and it captured my imagination. That AnandTech article played a part in kickstarting my childhood obsession with tinkering with computers and electronics. Long story short, all that tinkering ended up laying the foundation for much of my career and hobbies.

Almost exactly 15 years later, the same guy writes the announcement that AnandTech is closing their doors. It's funny how these things come full-circle. I'll miss Anandtech.
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Joined up here to say 'sorry this happened' and 'I enjoyed reading Anandtech', glad to see long-time lifers still using the forum and beating the likes of moving into a subreddit or facebook group. I've lurked a long time as an anon coward, so thanks all for keeping on the real web all this time. Here's hoping this forum still goes a while longer yet.
Registration works?
 
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FelixDeCat

Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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I HATE video content now being favored over written content. It appeals to short attention spans and cannot possibly be as in depth as needed.

And the irony is the latest trend is to show every spoken word as it is spoken, word by word, just below the person speaking.

(Video Content Playing, person speaking)

* Persons head *

Hi.
This
is
me
speaking.
I know
you
came to
watch a
video
but to
make it
more "action packed"
now
every
word
I speak
will
be shown
below me
speaking.
 
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Despoiler

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Nov 10, 2007
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As the internet changed, this forum has always felt like it was lost in time. I haven't posted daily in many years but I always come back to visit. Would be a shame if it disappeared, so many years after the great fusetalk migration.

I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Passion projects can rarely exist under corporate control that have a profit goal. Anandtech never changed with the times. Their last Youtube video was 4 years ago. They have no social media presence. I get the interest in long form, deep dive journalism, but it never had to be one or the other. You can have day one reviews to catch traffic, social media for short attention spans, and then get into the nitty gritty later as it takes time. I also thought Anandtech missed a huge opportunity, even in their lane and in their heyday, to settle technical forum debates by reaching out to the engineers at the various companies to get the real truth that a lot of us wanted to understand. There are so many unanswered question about what does what and why that will forever remain unanswered.
 
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We do need a new generation of wounded monitor children.
Funny just this week I noticed weird almost looks like drops of water inside my LCD screen, was going to try to figure out what’s wrong but I realized it’s at least 16 years old.
 

CrackRabbit

Lifer
Mar 30, 2001
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Though I stopped coming here regularly in 2019 AT and its forums were part of daily routine for the better part of two decades. The site stopping regular publishing saddens me. I look back on it as it was kind of the end of the wild west internet era. New ideas, and new technology were abundant and there was a sense of community and even trust with random strangers.
I hope the best for Ryan and the rest of the remaining writing and publishing staff.
 

misuspita

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Jul 15, 2006
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I have been on this site from 2003-5,can't remember, and part of the forums later... It was my main source of tech news and deep diver which I rarely saw elsewhere. Also enjoyed Daily Tech spinoff until it was sold by Anand...

Would be damn shame to see the forums go... At some point they lost a bit of quality and the semiaccurate forums were gaining quite a bit of the things I loved about atforums. Then that boat suddenly and without notice capsized and the conversation quality here started to get back again.

I'd hate to see the place go, but if it ever does, I would also hate to see it transform into a discord channel. Discord has the unfortunate capability to transform too much discussions into spoken dialog and chitchat instead of more thoughtful forum type posting. So, I would very much agree the community switch to a reddit community rather than a discord community.