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Looking at the article, like Hexus, the website and forums will be remaining active, just with no new news articles. Sad times
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Looking at the article, like Hexus, the website and forums will be remaining active, just with no new news articles. Sad times
Last edited by Disturbedguy; 30-08-2024 at 02:35 PM.
Originally Posted by TAKTAK
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Another enthusiast site down, going the way of print media, only being replaced by sub reddits (?)
That's a shame, good though they are keeping the site active. I do note though that like us they aren't allowing any new sign ups so will just be the active members they currently have.
Jon
IMHO, there will be a swing back to forums at some point, advertisers and 'influencers' are ruining peoples news feeds on stuff like Facebook and its become less about keeping up with friends and family and more about pushing crap at us..
As the saying goes, if the product is free, it's not the product, you are..
I highly doubt it, behaviour patterns have changed in the last 25 years. Forums are a dying format unfortunately, although some are still going strong. I met so many wonderful people over the years from forums, nights out, LAN parties, even went on holiday with some a met, and various meet-ups. It's just not the done thing it seems these days.
I'd like to think you're right, Trig, but .... dunno. Those of us that grew up with forums but no social media sites can see the difference and appreciate the loss. But the younger generation didn't do the 'forum' stage, so aren't likely to have the (mainly) nostalgic perspective we do.
At least tin part, it's the same forces at work as with print media. That took real money to put out, and took real money to produce content, not least because yu had professional editors hiring, in large part at least, people with actual expertise and real experience. And yeah, you can still find that on sites like Youtube but it's getting harder and harder the tell to wheat from the utter garbage. Some of the latter is pretty evident, but some sites are just advertorials dressed up as 'content', and funded by hidden sponsorships and underhanded contracts limiting what a "reviewer" can say.
For someone like me, with about 20 years of writing for print media, then the online versions of print media, some of what passes for reviews on some sites is an utter disgrace, and a fair bit more is questionable, to say the least.
However, for now at least, it's where the money goes. Advertisers drive the supply of money, and while they can browbeat enough (usually small) "reviewers" into doing it their way, it's effective for them. Ithink, personally, there is an awakening, albeit slow, among consumers as to just how bent a large part of the 'system' now is, and the resulting scepticism and even cynicism is going to taint the good with the bad. Advertisers (or at least, a good proportion of them) are at risk of destroying the very system they rely on, by abusing it.
The trouble is, as retailers have learned over the years, it takes a lot to build a good reputation, but you can destroy it very easily. And having done so, it is painful, slow and expensive to rebuild trust .... if it is possible at all.
There are VERY few sources of info on products I personally trust to be unbiased these days. Very few. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but .... I think the wider public are waking up to the way they're being played, and will end up trusting nothing they see online. BUT .... they're become accumstomed to getting content for free and going back to having to pay for it isn't going to go down well. But where sites/publications have to pay for actual journalists, and printing or hosting/bandwidth costs, it isn't coming back unless people are willing to pay for it, whether by monthly sub, or buying a printed mag or online content. There's not online many publishers that have made a real success of putting stuff behind a paywall, and I can't see much of a resurgence in printed publications ever really coming back. It makes me glad I'm retired.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
Sad, but true.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
An interesting video from TechTechPotato who worked there from Sandy Bridge era
https://youtu.be/ud6DWmWcHaY?si=1BH2ep4w_YKsRGLb
Sad days
Yeah this video brought it to my attention.
Unfortunately with the rise of YouTube reviewers, websites such as Anandtech and others will become less and less relevant. Sad times
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Influencers, pah.
Cheers, David
Am I the only one who can't stand YouTube tech reviews? Just type it up and give me the graphs. YouTube is useful for audio/music stuff where you need to hear it. Pc stuff? Just give me a "print" article
Jonj1611 (31-08-2024)
I don't hate them, but I get it.
With a video you are being told a story rather than reading yourself, you (sort of) lose the ability to choose where you focus on.
I also get that this isn't quite true as you can skip to timestamped sections but sometimes I want more than 10seconds to look at a chart without pausing.
I don't like youtube videos to be honest. Half an hour in some cases just waffling on. As above just show me the graphs/comparisons and I am happy
Jon
For me it depends on the 'reviewer'. Some are fairly good, some mediocre, some pretty poor and some .... well, you get the idea.
Mind you, that's not an experience that's entirely unique to either Youtube or even video reviews. More than a few times, I saw print reviews (or online versions of print magazines) where a fair bit of what was saudwas wrong to the point where I wondered if they'd ever seen the product. And several of those, I had the (pre-release) product sitting on my desk at the time.
I think part of the problem is that what I want from a review is, essentially, hard fact, but more than a few Youtube "reviews" seem to be as much about 'entertainment' as products. I wouldn't mind too much if the entertainment bit was done well, but usually, they have a far higher opinion of their entertainment value than I do.
Oh, and they seem to have been deteriorating in the last year or two. Or, maybe, I'm just getting fed up with their schtick.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
Youtube tech reviews I trust 100%
Hardware Unboxed
GamersNexus
KitGuru
Level1Techs
Optimum
Jarrod's Tech
There are many lower level channels which look promising - techless, STS, techlens, geekseekers, but I'm not convinced they'd go the extra mile yet to call a spade a spade.
Much the same as my list, except I rarely go to Optimum (not for any reason, just not in the habit), but I do check in on Jayz2Cents. How long I stay at Jayz varies, depending on the product/subject featured. I'm never likely to do watercooling, but I do find it pretty interesting. Also, NASCompares, but that one is pretty specific about subject matter.
There are also a few creators in other areas, including Security and Privacy (which I might stress, are very different albeit overlapping), Windows tweaking/tuning, Linux, some audio stuff, 3D printing of course, and, well, coffee.
I'd say my interest is about 50% for information and 50% enterainment, though that balance varies genre to genre.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
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