[tapoxi]

> I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy.

For the curious, this acquisition was 18 years ago.

[goalieca]

I read ars technica during undergrad over 20 years ago now. It complemented my learning in cpu architecture quite well. While in class we learned old stuff, they covered the modern Intel things. And also, who could forget the fantastically detailed and expert macOS reviews. I’ve never seen any reviews of any kind like that since.

I dropped ars from my rss sometime around covid when they basically dropped their journalism levels to reddit quality. Same hive mind and covering lots of non technical (political) topics. No longer representing its namesake!

[vanc_cefepime]

What blogs do you subscribe to for tech stuff in your RSS feed? I still have Ars but I have to weed through a lot of stuff like the political articles. Really like just pure tech like how it used to be with the old Anandtech.

[airstrike]

God, I didn't need to know that

[01100011]

How do I report online harassment? There's probably a button but I can't find it because I misplaced my reading glasses.

[falsemyrmidon]

Oddly enough it's not the first time I've seen their perceived recent drop in quality blamed on this. Just weird that it's happened twice - wonder where this narrative is coming from.

[linksnapzz]

No, their quality has been dropping since the acquisition; it's just now gotten to the point where it cannot be explained away.

[caminante]

I checked and was also expecting something different based on parent's comment.

Happened 18 years ago.

This is a hot take that has become room temp.

[c22]

Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas almost 30 years ago, but that's still a major reason they suck today.

[anthonj]

The transformation has been very slow I believe. They didn't really intrude too much the first few years. But maybe I remember wrong.