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End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is sad news. End of an era. One of the best technical review sites of its time.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Noooooo!

I've been following Anand and his replacements there at Anandtech since Anand only did early youtube type videos on Yahoo lol. Anand was considered a n00b by Comdex goers and reviewers alike. Back then, competition from the likes of Kyle @ [H]ardOCP, John @ AMDZone, cmdrtaco @ /., TheInquirer (now theregister), Sharky Extreme, Tomshardware and many others I honestly don't remember off the top of my head that really ruled the roost.

Anand made a name for himself in the company of some very tough competition.

Hats off to the man and his team over the years, they had a really great run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

“cmdrtaco”

Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a great long while…

Time…is a very strange thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While this is indeed sad, the brand was purchased by Future PLC in 2018, a huge and insanely profit-oriented publisher with brands like TechRadar, Tomshardware, iMore, WindowsCentral, AndroidCentral and many more under their roof, on tech alone. Anandtech was way too niche to be as profitable as Future had hoped, so it’s a miracle they kept them for six years. So, what’s next? I’m pretty sure Future will still keep the rights to the Anandtech brand, but the people who wrote for them are free to pursue their own ventures now, without pressure from big money publishers. This has precedent, albeit in a slightly different sphere. When The Escapist fired their editor in chief, everybody else left with him to start Second Wind, and so far, they seem to do just fine. There is hope!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

purchased by Future PLC in 2018, a huge and insanely profit-oriented publisher with brands like TechRadar, Tomshardware, iMore, WindowsCentral, AndroidCentral and many more under their roof

Is it only me that sees such companies as a problem? This can only lead to enshittyfication in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Shut down announcement 10 years to the day from Anand Lal Shimpi retiring from AnandTech.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ian Cutress's technical deep dives were amazing. After he left, the whole side went downhill. RIP Anandtech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He's still on YouTube, in case you didn't know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah Dr potato put out a video today about the closure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

TechTechPotato: AnandTech has Closed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6DWmWcHaY

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I think I’ve been reading AnandTech since around 2000. Sad to see it go for sure!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

🫡

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Damn. I used to frequent that site all the time from my teenage years up through college and even relatively recently. Their articles were always very in-depth and well written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

He got us through the Tech Wars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago