What web sites have you given up on?

[poofyhairguy]

there was a three month period when all Anand talked about was mobile phones.

Welcome to the modern tech industry. Mobile is where the excitement is.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Because rehashed unoriginal replies were something that made this place great?

Because rehashed, unoriginal replies are what made this place. Full stop.

 

[lxskllr]

Because rehashed, unoriginal replies are what made this place. Full stop.

4chan creates it, reddit beats it to death, and it crawls over here to die :^D

 

[dbk]

Yahoo's new theme is just horrible. I stick to the apps instead for my fantasy teams..

Engadget - the content is just so weak - not worth visiting anymore.. plenty of alternatives

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

4chan creates it, reddit beats it to death, and it crawls over here to die :^D

4chan never created anything in it's life.

 

[Theb]

Edmunds. I don't think I've ever seen a site go from so useful to so useless so quickly.

 

[mmntech]

add Gizmodo to the list

Gizmodo must be the only gadget blog in existence that has nothing to do with gadgets. The only two Gawker pages worth reading, IMO anyway, are Kotaku and Jalopnik. Everything else is garbage.

Engadget just seems to publish press releases now. Very little original content.

Cnet is bad but it's always been pretty bad.
Same applies for GameSpot. I don't think they ever really recovered from the payola scandal.

Most of the local newspapers are pretty bad now too. Especially since they threw all their content behind paywalls.'

NCIX. Their customer service (or complete lack there of) is currently driving me up the wall. I think their name stands for Now Costumer Cross & Irritable.

 

[nanette1985]

Nearly every diabetes forum on the web. There are two I still like, but all the others have turned into nothing but massive advertising.

 

[DesiPower]

Tomshardware, tigerdirect, news.com, pricewatch, facebook

 

[Raduque]

Everything in the Gawker network has been terrible since the redesign.

Actually, I pretty much don't bother with any tech sites, except Android Police or XDA.

 

[ElFenix]

Could be sites that had a change in membership. Loss of supporters. Changes layout. Jumped the shark and and are now a sea of advertising. Ect. Are there sites you used to use heavily and are now dead to you?

For me the big ones are:

1) Woot. Once they dropped the "one deal a day" and turned into a portal site for a billion different other gimmics I stopped visiting.

2) Edmunds.com. In the last 6 months or so the site has become all but useless. It's now nothing more than a front end for dealers to try and push inventory. Getting meaningful reviews and information is an exercise in futility.

3) Sports.yahoo.com. Used to be a simple, easy to navigate layout. They did a series of layout changes over the last several months and it's horrible now. It's virtually unusable on a mobile device and trying to sift through ads to get "real" information is miserable. Terrible, terrible layout.

Advertising has really forever tarnished the 'web.

edmunds became useless 10 years ago. but then they started insideline, which worked. now they've f-ed that up too.

why do i have to guess if something is a first drive, full review, or long term to find a car review? why is the review section actually just blurbs instead of a car review? useless.


most gmail changes have made it worse. composing in the bottom right doesnt make sense for a society that starts at the top left.

 

[vi edit]

edmunds became useless 10 years ago. but then they started insideline, which worked. now they've f-ed that up too.

I still *used* to go there recently to look up the option pricing/packages on cars and for the owner reviews. Now even trying to find the owner reviews is painful. It's like 40 clicks and a leap of faith hoping I got to the right section.

 

[Imp]

CNN - hate their main page
GameSpy -- long ago
IGN -- long ago
Bloomberg -- Once I stopped trying to day trade/beat the market.

 

[fixxor]

Voodoo extreme. That was a looong time ago.

 

[Ns1]

slashdot
bgr
gizmodo
deadline
newegg

 

[schmuckley]

Tom's (not so bad for me cuz no-ads) if not..It's almost unbearable.
OCN (Huddler change,booooo )
Geeks.com
Facebook
The local news site. Tons of spam/scam ads..wtf? On front page, too.
Hardware Secrets-One big snarl of ads and paid-off shoddy reviews.

 

[gevorg]

DPReview - illogical and biased camera ratings/awards; forums are hoarded by pixel-peepers

 

[ForumMaster]

considering dropping youtube. seriously. it's a bunch of morons at google that can't seem to understand when not to touch the site.

gmail still feels like it's in beta. constantly changing it's interface every month.
google just broke youtube's comments. google+ isn't going to happen...

 

[Doppel]

Voodoo extreme. That was a looong time ago.

Oh damn! I used to go there, haven't thought of it in years.

Recent sites I've given up on are facebook, I rarely go to it.

I tried groupon for a week a year or two ago. It's shit, can't believe the company isn't dead.

 

[Mermaidman]

Edmunds Insideline for their car reviews and long-term test drives. Well, it used to be Insideline, but they rolled it into the main site, and the navigation became very cumbersome.

edit: I see I'm not the only disgruntled former visitor.

 

[Newbian]

4chan creates it, reddit beats it to death, and it crawls over here to die :^D

Funny because it's true.

But I never go to reddit as it's layout sucks as you have to click 3-4 links just to get to one image most of the time.

 

[brianmanahan]

anandtech (main page)

same, i gave up on AT years ago. they rarely cover what i care about anymore.

 

[gophertron]

Glad to see someone else hates the sports.yahoo page design. I'll definitely admit it looks "cooler" with the faded sports stadium stuff in the background, but it's painfully slow and frustrating to navigate now. Whenever there's a playoff series going, I want to see what the standings are, but it's impossible to find. Too bad there isn't a wikipedia-style site for current sports.

finance.yahoo is also going the way of sports.yahoo...I'm not sure what the hell they're trying to do, but my portfolios don't load properly now. I recall them doing this long ago in the past, and they eventually just reverted to their original layout. Maybe I should vocally bitch to them that their new layout adds no value and looks way too confusing.

Also funny about the gmail comments...I actually strongly prefer hotmail now over gmail as I find it much easier to navigate and use. Reading threaded e-mails in gmail has always been confusing to me, and they keep making changes with no clear advantage. It seems like the only feature it ever had going for it was the large amount of free space, but that hasn't been special for a long time.

 

[notposting]

Agree on woot.

Tom's Hardware.
Dansdata once he outsourced some of the reviews.
BGR and Engadget have the worst comments ever. Make P&N look like a bastion of intelligent, reasoned discourse.
Google. So freaking creepy. More of a problem is their complete disregard for their customers.
Nintendorks Never bought a Wii so I quit caring...
Gamefaqs, mostly because I never have time to game anymore. I still use it on the odd occasion when I have time and a new game though.
TheForce.net -- man their redesign a few years ago was just complete shit. Though the godawful prequels and George Lucas utter douchebaggery played a huge role.
Yahoo
Anyone remember L'Hotel Chat

I also remember using espn on compuserve dial up. Text based espn lol.

 

[coldmeat]

Funny because it's true.

But I never go to reddit as it's layout sucks as you have to click 3-4 links just to get to one image most of the time.

Reddit Enhancement Suite must really change things a lot, because I find it quite the opposite. The reason I spend so much time on Reddit is because it's way too easy to access a ton of content really fast.

I used to think Reddit's layout sucked, then I started using it.