I remember when Ars Technica was the worlds best tech website. Then Condé Nast bought it. This was a long time ago.
At the time, I did not understand. How could new owners ruin the site? It just means a different set of rich people in suits at the helm right?
Why was I enjoying the content less? Why was the community turning sour? Why am I no longer looking forward to spending time there?
So I abandoned Ars for Reddit. Again, this was forever ago. Reddit was pretty vibrant. But then the same thing happened to Reddit, but even more dramatically. Because of the same people.
Ars Technica had a permanent place in my RSS feeds for many years. They were a bright example of publication able to reach into complicated legal, political, and technical areas and break it down in informative way.
Then over the years they became spitting image of Verizon's 'Sugarstring' project. Stuffed in needless 'diversity' focus to run fluff culture stories. And hired pedophiles.
I remember when Ars Technica was the worlds best tech website. Then Condé Nast bought it. This was a long time ago.
At the time, I did not understand. How could new owners ruin the site? It just means a different set of rich people in suits at the helm right?
Why was I enjoying the content less? Why was the community turning sour? Why am I no longer looking forward to spending time there?
So I abandoned Ars for Reddit. Again, this was forever ago. Reddit was pretty vibrant. But then the same thing happened to Reddit, but even more dramatically. Because of the same people.
Ars Technica had a permanent place in my RSS feeds for many years. They were a bright example of publication able to reach into complicated legal, political, and technical areas and break it down in informative way.
Then over the years they became spitting image of Verizon's 'Sugarstring' project. Stuffed in needless 'diversity' focus to run fluff culture stories. And hired pedophiles.
They're no longer in the RSS feed.