Anandtech has closed

[Quartz]

Trying to think of others that closed down,

HardOCP was another.

 

[kona786]

Anandtech died when the main dude went to apple

 

[Armageus]

I imagine a lot of people just watch Youtube videos now rather than read tech articles?

I don't know why?
I'm not sure how having to endure 15 minutes of waffle and "a word from our sponsors" is more convenient than being able to skim read and jump to benchmark results etc

 

[Werewolf]

I don't know why?
I'm not sure how having to endure 15 minutes of waffle and "a word from our sponsors" is more convenient than being able to skim read and jump to benchmark results etc

I loathe video reviews and guides most of the time, as you say it's much faster to read the information and only have a video or pictures if actually needed.

 

[Nemiyen]

I used to religiously check HardOCP, this forum and then tomshardware but when HardOCP shut, although forums are still online, I just started stopping keeping up with IT news and just research what I need, when I need it.

I guess it's mentality like this that causes them to close down as well as people doing a lot of this in their spare time for free on YouTube. Yeah, they're not as in depth and detailed but there's only us major geeks that like that sort of detail, main stream people are happy with what they get on YouTube.

 

[Nelly]

HardOCP was another.

So Hexus, Xbitlabs, HardOCP. Also bit-tech, Hardware Heaven, I noticed a few smaller websites I had saved closed down through the years.

 

[Minstadave]

I imagine a lot of people just watch Youtube videos now rather than read tech articles?

No money in written articles as ads are blocked or so obtrusive so people stop coming.

 

[Minstadave]

I don't know why?
I'm not sure how having to endure 15 minutes of waffle and "a word from our sponsors" is more convenient than being able to skim read and jump to benchmark results etc.

People will still read articles but it's nowhere near as financially viable as YouTube for ad revenue.

 

[Bluecube]

25 years ago(!!!) Anandtech and Tom’s Hardware were my go to sites for tech info particularly in the years I was building my own PCs and new motherboards and CPUs were exciting… Stopped visiting both those sites when they were sold to large media companies who then tried to monetise them disastrously.

 

[D.P.]

Sad times, they actually had detailed Information about the hardware, architecture, design choices . Even when one vendors performance was clearly inferior they at least provided good insights i to design decisions and tradeoffs

 

[Hades]

Who?

Ronnie Pickering Anandtech

 

[fillip2k]

Man all the old sites are closing down! Bit-Tech, Hexus now Anandtech!

Who's next OC3D?!

 

[Quartz]

The official announcement:

End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

www.anandtech.com

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.

 

[Mujja]

I seem to remember less ads above, below, between and around the articles, that's probably why I stopped visiting reading reviews and Anandtech and others.

 

[potatolord]

Sad news.

Anandtech generally had decent articles and good writers.

I'm another one who does not like video reviews. Give me an article I can skim read, with charts, any day.

 

[StriderX]

Well a lot of sites exist purely off the backs of it's founder's cash and ad revenue, eventually the former gets unsustainable and the latter is currently in decline as brands realise they're wasting billions showing ads to bots.

 

[StonedPenguin]

That's a shame.