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

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.

God this is sad :(

A forum member says that an archive exists:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/anandtech-editorial-ann...

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".

Related, I guess:

AnandTech Farewell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399872 - Aug 2024 (598 comments)

did they not provide a copy of the CMS to the Internet Archive??!

Interesting, usually it's the forums of websites that die first, instead of the static content, due to requiring active maintenance and moderation...

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

Big loss for the web.

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

Not even techy people can keep a list of simple URL redirects active?