AnandTech Ceases Publication, Maintains Archives and Forums
AnandTech Editor-in-Chief Ryan Smith writes:
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 – world of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.
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Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech to wrap up its work, and let the next generation of tech journalists take their place within the zeitgeist.
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And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. Even without new articles to add to the collection, I expect that many of the things we’ve written over the past couple of decades will remain relevant for years to come – and remain accessible just as long.
The AnandTech Forums will also continue to be operated by Future’s community team and our dedicated troop of moderators. With forum threads going back to 1999 (and some active members just as long), the forums have a history almost as long and as storied as AnandTech itself.
Kudos to AnandTech owner Future PLC for keeping AnandTech’s content and forums available, which is difficult for smaller publications that run their own infrastructure. Maintaining archives and discussions may be easier for Future because it says (or at least implies) that all its brands run on a single technology stack that provides content management, ad placement, affiliates, stats, and email publishing. I wasn’t previously aware of Future, which bills itself as “the world’s leading technology publisher,” having acquired or developed over 250 publications. Other Future PLC brands include iMore, Mac Format, Mac|Life, TechRadar, and Tom’s Guide (where some AnandTech staffers are now employed).
Future has been around for almost four decades. The owner’s spouse is the famous “wife of Bath” immortalised in the Canterbury Tales. As anode to their British origins all the employees have assumed the “Teddy Boy” gender,