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I'm still following Ars Technica on Facebook, but it's only clickbait these days. I feel like I remember it being a quality publication at some point in the pas
by rjzzleep 4y ago
I'm still following Ars Technica on Facebook, but it's only clickbait these days. I feel like I remember it being a quality publication at some point in the past ... What happened?
- causi 4y agoFully agree. It was incredible when the tagline was "Ars Technica, the PC Enthusiast's Resource." It's become increasingly clickbaity. One wonders how a tech news site manages to justify using a school shooting to generate pageviews. In recent months they've been reposting stories from their "partner sites", most of which are spectacularly terrible. I think the decline began a few years ago when they starting amplifying Twitter drama about game developers. That's about the same time the rumors started flying about Peter Bright, which site admins continued to stomp on right up until he was arrested for pedophilia.
- GloriousKoji 4y agoThey sold out to Conde Nast in 2008.
- rjzzleep 4y agoI've heard that before, but I'm not sure what it means in practice.