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Good-bye?- Anandtech

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akugami said:
End of an era. The site wasn't as prominent as in its heydays and as others have noted, there were plenty of other tech websites, and the prominence of Youtube.

The sad part is, and this is only my opinion, 80% of Youtube videos is at best a supplement, and not a replacement for the indepth reviews we get with a written article. Yes, a Youtube video is perfectly fine, and perfectly valid, for a video card performance review. But when you're doing an article on a new GPU architecture, and talking about what makes it tick, what makes it better, etc., nothing beats out a well written article.
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It doesn't really matter how great the written word is; it is extremely hard to make money selling articles online. The NYT and WSJ have finally figured it out; anyone else? Most newspapers nowadays are effectively rotting corpses of their former selves.

YT works because of huge economies of scale (eyeballs, that is) and advertisers willing to pay Google big bucks for large enough quantities of eyeballs.
 
Maximilian said:
Wow time flies! Pentium 4's and Athlons were still duking it out when I joined here. Radeon 9800 PRO was the king of GPU's. And we had this new fancy thing called SATA to replace this chonky thing called IDE.

R.I.P in peace old friend 🙁
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Me too. Built a P4 PresHOT 3.2 and a Radeon 9600XT on an ASUS board for my first build. GPU came with a code to download Half-Life 2 when it launched on some new game service called Steam.

But why is everybody acting like it’s over?

NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE DECIDE IT IS!
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manly said:
It doesn't really matter how great the written word is; it is extremely hard to make money selling articles online. The NYT and WSJ have finally figured it out; anyone else? Most newspapers nowadays are effectively rotting corpses of their former selves.

YT works because of huge economies of scale (eyeballs, that is) and advertisers willing to pay Google big bucks for large enough quantities of eyeballs.
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I don't disagree. It's true that YT videos bring in bigger bucks in today's environment.

Doesn't change the fact that written articles are way way better for many types of articles. And that is the sad reality of today's tech journalism.
 
BoomerD said:
The funny part of that is Olds moved twice during those years…the last time to Ohio…brought you home.
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I remember when Old's was selling his house, it was awkward every time the realtor was giving a viewing and would bring people down to the basement and we were all chained up, literally hanging around acting like it's just a normal day in paradise. We eventually got moved to the new basement as per recommendation from the realtor.
 
Never used the reviews, only the forums from the beginning. Barely visit anymore but saw the news on reddit. Lots of neffing at work for me here through the years...
 
pete6032 said:
How much does it cost to run a forum like this? Or is it a money maker with the ads?
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With the amount of traffic this forum gets, probably under $100/mo. Can easily run off a single leased mid end server like what OVH or similar providers sell. Maybe even a good VPS. Although a dedicated server is best.
 
Red Squirrel said:
With the amount of traffic this forum gets, probably under $100/mo. Can easily run off a single leased mid end server like what OVH or similar providers sell. Maybe even a good VPS. Although a dedicated server is best.
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It's a pretty big database, but your estimate sounds reasonable.

I doubt it's an outright money maker, so it's appreciated that Future is leaving the AT main site running as an archive and the forums alive for now. "Nothing lasts forever."
 
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