Nearly a year ago, we shared the news that Anandtech was being snuffed out by its publisher, Future, after being left to slowly rot from a lack of investment as its other brands seemed to be more worth their while. at the time, Future publicly stated that the site would remain available indefinitely, but much like T-Mobile’s idea of a price lock guarantee, they had their fingers crossed behind their backs while uttering those words.
For those of you unfamiliar with Future, they have a portfolio of sites that they’ve hoovered up via acquisition over the years including Tom’s Hardware, PC Pro, Android Central, Windows Central, PC Gamer and TechRadar. When attending trade shows like Computex and CES, I’ve yet to find a tech journalist fond of the Future empire and how it is run.
What we’re seeing now is https://www.anandtech.com is redirecting all traffic over to the Anandtech forums at https://forums.anandtech.com over the past few days. No notices have been posted, but there’s been some level of unsurprised chatter in the various communities that we’re involved in. Dr. Ian Cutress also acknowledged that a year of continued site availability was the original plan and Future appears to have rounded that down by a month.
Whether this is a temporary blip while they get the squirrels out of the attic and the site stood back up or if it’s a permanent snuffing a la The Inquirer (RIP), we’ll hopefully find out soon. Of course, Ian’s Anandtech closing video continues to provide good insight into its final years and his take on it – certainly worth a watch if you didn’t catch it the first time around.
Discussion (10 replies)
Join Discussion →A shame
I know the feeling of all your content of 18 years going offline; I can sympathize.
Well sadly, realistically it only might have served as a memory lane/ midlife crisis youth grieving ritual.
Ah i remenber website rounds every day, aces, hardocp, anand, the inquirer ( ?) , toms, amdzone, and im sure i forgot a bunch.
It's been very annoying not having access to articles, and it's going to be very annoying not having access to Anandtech articles. Gawd dangit.
Sad times indeed. I've lost track of how many tech sites have gone under in the last decade with nothing left behind. I actually was doing some cleanup on my bookmarks a couple of weekends ago and deleted a few for that same reason.
Can't it be accessed trough some archival site?
I just wonder if they will actually keep the forums going or not.
I miss Anandtech more than I'll ever miss [H}, anand's in depth tech articles were industry leading. [H} content while it had its own spin, it wasn't as in depth nor technical compared to Anand (and that's fine, it wasn't its focus) What I remember for is Kyle picking a fight anytime with anyone he had a chance, be it intel, nvidia, amd, apple, you name it. He was eager to dig his sword into whoever he thought was acting wrongfully.
FiringSquad, Sharky Extreme, nvnews, Xbit Labs, Tech Report, every 3dfx related site, Daily News, Hexus.net, techbench... the list goes on
FiringSquad was another I sorely missed when it was gone, but good gawd that was so long ago. I discovered and FS around the same time, 2000 or 2001, not too long before I got my Athlon Tbird.
And to your list I will also add Tom's Hardware Guide. Yes sure the site is still sorta around, but old-school for-realz THG stopped existing a very long time ago. And I greatly miss it.