I used to visit AnandTech semi-regularly for some time, but in the past few years had checked in less often. The site was staying the same, but I was becoming less hardcore about PC stuff. I just wanted something that would work until I was ready for my next system (my current PC is a little over five years old, and the one it replaced ran for about seven years).
Still, I’m sad to see it shutting down as of today: End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
While editor Ryan Smith notes the publisher’s generosity in allowing the site to operate as it wanted, what he also says by implication, is that the generosity came to an end. AnanaTech apparently didn’t want to become another SEO-driven content mill, and so it gets shut down.
The good news? The site itself is being kept up (for now–I am skeptical Future PLC will stick to that) and its forums, which date back to 1999, will be kept running (see my skepticism above). But as of today, it’s now a legacy site. It becomes a part of history, part of the past, still worthy of keeping and remembering, but now an artifact, an exhibit of what once was.
But we still have Blue’s News! This was my home page for years when I was gaming all up in the hizzy in the last 90s/early 2000s. And it still looks exactly the same. Also, I no longer have a home page.