[HN Gopher] Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
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       Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
        
       Author : kmfrk
       Score  : 96 points
       Date   : 2025-08-02 13:27 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (forums.anandtech.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (forums.anandtech.com)
        
       | kmfrk wrote:
       | anandtech.com now redirects to the forums instead its front page
       | of articles. Here is what the website previously tweeted about
       | its future a year ago after winding down operations.[1]
       | 
       | Originally heard this via
       | https://x.com/System360Cheese/status/1951501044875477254.
       | 
       | The latest indexed frontpage in the Internet Archive is from July
       | 28:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20250728143805/https://www.anand....
       | 
       | The original farewell article, which is now only readable through
       | the IA:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20250726035557/https://www.anand....
       | One paragraph reads:
       | 
       | "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."
       | 
       | [1]: https://x.com/anandtech/status/1829489697384706555
       | > AnandTech will stay online so readers can continue to access
       | articles from our archive, and the forums will remain active to
       | serve our community. Our sister site Tom's Hardware, will also
       | continue to publish all the latest news, reviews and more from
       | the PC world. Thank you all
        
       | kcb wrote:
       | This is not great. Decades of hardware reviews all the way back
       | to the first GPUs becoming less accessible. Why would anyone
       | consider taking it down when there was so much content that could
       | be hosted with little effort while still making some ad revenue?
       | Anandtech articles were still at the top of many Google searches.
        
       | bwb wrote:
       | God this is sad :(
        
       | dangle1 wrote:
       | A forum member says that an archive exists:
       | 
       | https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/anandtech-editorial-ann...
        
       | 5pl1n73r wrote:
       | Just learned they've stopped publishing. Sad! The old web is
       | really dying. Seems like a bug though? They said they'll keep the
       | site up "indefinitely".
        
         | bee_rider wrote:
         | Chips and Cheese seems like a basically fine replacement for
         | Anandtech. Things change, and the internet has gotten worse
         | since then, but specifically chip benchmarking doesn't seem too
         | bad.
        
           | smueller1234 wrote:
           | I think Chips and Cheese is more like a fine replacement for
           | realworldtech.com sans the toxic and highly educational and
           | entertaining forums. Anandtech was much more accessible to
           | the general tech public, but also more commercial and thus
           | hit and miss on the content (no judgement intended, gotta
           | eat).
        
         | icepush wrote:
         | Indefinitely in the sense of an unknown amount of time (Not
         | infinitely)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related, I guess:
       | 
       |  _AnandTech Farewell_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399872 - Aug 2024 (598
       | comments)
        
         | lgats wrote:
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20250726001915/https://www.anand...
        
         | joecool1029 wrote:
         | https://archive.ph/bewtN
        
       | bananapub wrote:
       | did they not provide a copy of the CMS to the Internet Archive??!
        
       | Aardwolf wrote:
       | Interesting, usually it's the forums of websites that die first,
       | instead of the static content, due to requiring active
       | maintenance and moderation...
        
       | Numerlor wrote:
       | Already got bit by this, remembered an external SSD I opened had
       | a review there and wanted to compare hardware, and wasn't able to
       | get to the review
        
       | giantfrog wrote:
       | Big loss for the web.
        
       | stuffoverflow wrote:
       | Archiveteam did a full site crawl[1] when Anandtech announced
       | they were stopping. You can browse the warc.gz files like a
       | regular web page using https://replayweb.page
       | 
       | Alternatively you could use solrwayback[2] to index and browse
       | the warc files.
       | 
       | 1:
       | https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/202409012...
       | 
       | 2: https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | Also Kiwix[1] is an excellent app for browsing websites
         | offline. You can use warc2zim[2] to convert the WARC files to
         | ZIM files for use with Kiwix.
         | 
         | I was pleasantly surprised to find that the DWDS (digital
         | dictionary of the German language) app is actually Kiwix!
         | 
         | [1]: https://www.kiwix.org/
         | 
         | [2]: https://github.com/openzim/warc2zim
        
       | creatonez wrote:
       | Not even techy people can keep a list of simple URL redirects
       | active?
        
         | pimlottc wrote:
         | Pretty sure the techy people have left the building
        
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