Question so long and thanks for all the fish

[Thibsie]

I'd say RWT but their forum interface is (@+_+£)@

 

[fastandfurious6]

traditional forums must remain

reddit is a disgusting example of a dystopic future

 

[Hulk]

Losing Anand was bad. Losing the main site was another blow. Losing this forum would be absolutely horrendous.

 

[NTMBK]

Well, it's been a few months since this thread was last updated and, surprisingly, we're (mostly) all still here. Anyone have any insight into how long we actually have? Is there any consensus on where everyone wants to go yet?

In all honesty, this forum might outlast the United States the way things are going right now

 

[marees]

Anandtech.com is gone

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952381406782599352

 

[blckgrffn]

Anandtech.com is gone

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952381406782599352

Wowsers. So much data & data interpretation gone. Sad day.

In these days of AI shenanigans, that fact this wasn't worth putting a small team against to keep just modernized to keep hosted is pretty shocking. That's a high ranking domain seemingly relegated to the trash bin.

When you want to make the content static and remove all of the dynamic content and remove all of the backend functionality it couldn't have been that challenging.

The more I consider it, its freaking terrible. The fact that all of that will be lost to any future AI ingestion (fwiw) as a very trusted source of pre-AI content and structure really sucks.

 

[yottabit]

Wowsers. So much data & data interpretation gone. Sad day.

In these days of AI shenanigans, that fact this wasn't worth putting a small team against to keep just modernized to keep hosted is pretty shocking. That's a high ranking domain seemingly relegated to the trash bin.

When you want to make the content static and remove all of the dynamic content and remove all of the backend functionality it couldn't have been that challenging.

The more I consider it, its freaking terrible. The fact that all of that will be lost to any future AI ingestion (fwiw) as a very trusted source of pre-AI content and structure really sucks.

I mean - it's a shame, yes. But it's been captured 27,477 times on archive.org. I think those of us that are motivated to access old reviews will be OK

 

[marees]

Anandtech.com is gone

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952381406782599352

Slashdot expressed interest in buying AT

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952390113755058639

 

[DZero]

Wait, wait, if Anandtech.com is gone, that means that the forums will have an expiration date? or what is going on?

 

[dullard]

I was wondering why I couldn't find Anandtech articles last week.

Wait, wait, if Anandtech.com is gone, that means that the forums will have an expiration date? or what is going on?

This has been discussed over and over and over again. Now please see post #105 in this thread:

(The forums are hosted separately)

 

[blckgrffn]

I mean - it's a shame, yes. But it's been captured 27,477 times on archive.org. I think those of us that are motivated to access old reviews will be OK

Yeah, but see @dullard above. Available only on Archive.org means many thousands of broken backlinks, all that. It's "there" but like a museum exhibit.

Seriously, going to a static site bereft of all CMS... has to be tools to automate that out there, as Archive.org and wayback machine both show... so borderline trivial. What a joke not making it happen.

And why kill it rather than sell it? Reeks of a tax write-down, which is like how you discard trash which... damn it man, Anandtech was certainly not that.

 

[NTMBK]

Damn, awful to see all those years of great work just shut down. Glad it's been archived.

 

[gdansk]

The main problem, in my opinion, is all the broken links.
Poor, dead web.

 

[511]

all the deep dives woosh man they can't even host fixed amount of data

 

[fastandfurious6]

from hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44767433

you can download anandtech.com and browse it but it's 70gb lol

Archiveteam did a full site crawl[1] when Anandtech announced they were stopping. You can browse the warc.gz files like a regular web page using https://replayweb.page
Alternatively you could use solrwayback[2] to index and browse the warc files.
1: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/202409012...
2: https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback

Also Kiwix[1] is an excellent app for browsing websites offline. You can use warc2zim[2] to convert the WARC files to ZIM files for use with Kiwix.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the DWDS (digital dictionary of the German language) app is actually Kiwix!

[1]: https://www.kiwix.org/

[2]: https://github.com/openzim/warc2zim

 

[Ranulf]

Has anyone grabbed/archived the forums? At least the tech sections heh.

 

[Doug S]

Wow didn't even click with me how moments ago when I typed in 'ana' in Firefox and it autocompleted to "anandtech.com" and I hit return that it sent me directly to the forums instead of requiring the extra step to get here.

 

[mikegg]

Sucks because some Anandtech articles are still being cited today.

Further more, all the historical reviews are lost to the index.

LLMs that have ingested the content helps a bit. But LLMs who do not have that content in the training will have lost it since archivals aren't very accessible.

 

[Doug S]

Sucks because some Anandtech articles are still being cited today.

Further more, all the historical reviews are lost to the index.

LLMs that have ingested the content helps a bit. But LLMs who do not have that content in the training will have lost it since archivals aren't very accessible.

Any post here or elsewhere that linked/inlined an image from an Anandtech article (I know I've done that here and on RWT) will have broken links. It is too bad there isn't a specified way to convert a direct link into a Wayback Machine link. Then some sort of automated maintenance process part of forum software could do that automatically and fixup links to articles or images.

 

[JustViewing]

This is so sad. All the great articles lost forever. Anand himself should contribute to keep the site alive. This was his legacy. I wonder how long the forums will last

 

[511]

we should really decide some backup site lol

 

[poke01]

What are some good alternatives?

 

[Gideon]

I'm not sure where to post it so i post it here:

Raja Koduri just announced a new GPU Startup to run to the ground.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952633136233455629

Why post here?

Well I wonder what lasts longer. These forums or that startup ...

 

[moinmoin]

the final iteration of the site was designed against a Microsoft-centric set of frameworks

Why would anybody do that? Hearing that I'm honestly surprised they kept it running that long.

 

[Hitman928]

What are some good alternatives?

We made a short list in this or another thread. My vote is still ocforums.com. It is member owned and operated so less risky of getting shut down/sold out. It doesn’t have a lot of active users right now but if people migrated, that would change quickly.