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What are your specific beefs?

by cowmixtoo 16y ago

zokier 16y ago
I'm not the OP, and I don't follow phoronix regularly, but it seems sensationalist at times.
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cookiecaper 16y ago
It is absolutely littered with ads. I appreciate that Larabel wants to make a living and I'm all for that. However, the ads are intrusive and annoying. Every time I do a fresh install of a browser, Phoronix is the site that provokes me to go get AdBlock again. I don't usually mind or notice on other sites. Stories are often mistaken or exaggerated. "Steam on Linux Confirmed" while technically pedantically accurate is still misleading because everyone reads in to this like there was an official announcement, when really it was "confirmed" by Phoronix's anonymous source. They also may have pissed Valve off with this business and spoiled the fun for those who knew about the location of the in-development Steam Linux binaries. It's not just Steam, it's stuff like "HUGE HUGE MAJOR REGRESSIONS IN NEW RC". That's nice and all, but it's really jumping the gun and often turns out not to be anything at all really. On top of this, he should consult LKML or an IRC channel or some place with people who know what they are doing before he runs those kinds of things. Benchmarks are OK sometimes, but sometimes subtle factors make them rather misleading. This is usually pointed out in the message board thread associated with the story, but the story is never corrected and Larabel keeps running benchmarks that are dubious in nature. Once again, no shame in misunderstanding as long as you seek to clear it up. Larabel has a major propensity for making conclusions with very scant and/or unreliable data. And on top of all that, the writing is just really frustratingly bad. Things are worded in confusing ways, there are always lame quips for teasers. A headline will be something like "Gnome developers talk Shell at GUADEC" and the snippet will be "It is discussed". That is pretty annoying to me and just emphasizes the immaturity of the publication. I think that Larabel and Phoronix in general would be great if there was a bit more structure and professionalism about it. Larabel has his strengths and his weaknesses, as we all do. If he wants to be taken seriously, he should invite a handful of contributors with a penchant for accuracy, restraint, copy-editing, and not-annoying-the-users, give them equal authority over the process, and the site would be really good.

What are your specific beefs?

zokier 16y ago

I'm not the OP, and I don't follow phoronix regularly, but it seems sensationalist at times.

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cookiecaper 16y ago

It is absolutely littered with ads. I appreciate that Larabel wants to make a living and I'm all for that. However, the ads are intrusive and annoying. Every time I do a fresh install of a browser, Phoronix is the site that provokes me to go get AdBlock again. I don't usually mind or notice on other sites. Stories are often mistaken or exaggerated. "Steam on Linux Confirmed" while technically pedantically accurate is still misleading because everyone reads in to this like there was an official announcement, when really it was "confirmed" by Phoronix's anonymous source. They also may have pissed Valve off with this business and spoiled the fun for those who knew about the location of the in-development Steam Linux binaries. It's not just Steam, it's stuff like "HUGE HUGE MAJOR REGRESSIONS IN NEW RC". That's nice and all, but it's really jumping the gun and often turns out not to be anything at all really. On top of this, he should consult LKML or an IRC channel or some place with people who know what they are doing before he runs those kinds of things. Benchmarks are OK sometimes, but sometimes subtle factors make them rather misleading. This is usually pointed out in the message board thread associated with the story, but the story is never corrected and Larabel keeps running benchmarks that are dubious in nature. Once again, no shame in misunderstanding as long as you seek to clear it up. Larabel has a major propensity for making conclusions with very scant and/or unreliable data. And on top of all that, the writing is just really frustratingly bad. Things are worded in confusing ways, there are always lame quips for teasers. A headline will be something like "Gnome developers talk Shell at GUADEC" and the snippet will be "It is discussed". That is pretty annoying to me and just emphasizes the immaturity of the publication. I think that Larabel and Phoronix in general would be great if there was a bit more structure and professionalism about it. Larabel has his strengths and his weaknesses, as we all do. If he wants to be taken seriously, he should invite a handful of contributors with a penchant for accuracy, restraint, copy-editing, and not-annoying-the-users, give them equal authority over the process, and the site would be really good.