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MacNN shut down and I don’t think anyone covered Bare Feats’ closure with the death of its founder a year or two ago.
 
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They've had some good people there over the years, but similar to AndroidCentral (which I guess is surviving?), they went all in, and then some, to the SEO/Affiliate world, and alienated their core readership that had been with them for years. Some of that is inevitable, as their core readership likely wasn't enough to keep their lights on. But they went overboard, I'm sure due to their parent company, and it really watered down some good writing by good writers.

Best of luck to the good writers that were involved over there.
 
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Ritchie made that site unbearable often, a fanboy to the extreme.

His opinions probably made that site what it was, polarizing for some, full agreement for others, for better or for worse. Everytime I checked in there it was him whining or gloating.
Not surprised though that it went downhill when he left.
 
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Oh yeah I completely forgot about her! Yeah her and Renee made iMore what it was and they went on to Apple and Google, respectively.
Renee was a little fanboy-ish at times but he was always super knowledgable and a fun read. Serenity was good as well.
 
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Good.

First, when they rebranded to iMore I was annoyed, but it's just a name so I moved on.

But then, they did a drastic redesign of the site that made it unusable and I stopped going regularly. I would visit once in a long while.

And then, they did another smaller redesign and it was still bad.

I used to visit multiple times every day. For me, their bad redesign ruined it. The site was fine and usable before that, and the articles were fine.

Yep, the first redesign made the forums difficult to use, so I spent less time there. The second redesign made them totally unusable, so my time there went to zero. It’s a shame, there were some good folks on their forums.
 
I think I only used iMore a few times. I came from Trẽo Central and webOS Nation but when I bought my first Apple product (2006 MacBook CD), MacRumors caught my attention and I stayed there. After getting my first iPhone (4S), MacRumors had everything I needed and I never really went elsewhere.

Sometimes after a google search, I'll find my answer to something on another site, but that's rare.
 
loooong time ago, it was a great source for info. But it’s forum sucked and lacked a good user group.
 
Ritchie made that site unbearable often, a fanboy to the extreme.

His opinions probably made that site what it was, polarizing for some, full agreement for others, for better or for worse. Everytime I checked in there it was him whining or gloating.
Not surprised though that it went downhill when he left.

I'm with you. I couldn't bring myself to like Rene. Seemed like a nice guy otherwise.

Hope everyone else working on that site is able to find decent work elsewhere.
 


Apple-focused publication iMore on Wednesday sadly announced that it will no longer be publishing new content on its website. Existing content published by the website will remain available indefinitely, it said.

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"iMore leaves the stage at a pivotal crossroads for online publishing, where the battle for readers' time and attention is more demanding than ever before, and the aforementioned AI advances and search discovery methods further complicate the playing field," wrote iMore's final editor-in-chief Gerald Lynch, in a farewell blog post.

iMore is the second well-known technology website owned by Future PLC to be shuttered in as many months, following AnandTech in August. In a financial disclosure today, the company announced that it is closing a "number of non-core or low to no growth assets," including a "small number of print and digital brands."

Future PLC also owns Android Central, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Windows Central, and more.

iMore's History

The website that eventually became iMore has operated under various names for over 17 years. The site originally launched as PhoneDifferent.com in 2007, merged with and took the name of TheiPhoneBlog.com in 2008, and abbreviated its domain name to TiPb.com in 2010. In 2012, the website rebranded as iMore.

iMore has been home to a number of well-known technology journalists over the years, including Dieter Bohn, Rene Ritchie, Serenity Caldwell, and many others. Bohn went on to become a founding member of The Verge in 2011, and he now works at Google. Ritchie left iMore in 2020 after 12 years at the website, and he now works for YouTube. Caldwell worked for iMore between 2014 and 2018, and she now works at Apple.

Ritchie was an especially prominent voice at iMore, having published numerous op-eds about Apple products over his years at the website.

iMore had a dedicated team of writers in more recent years, including Lynch, Lory Gil, Stephen Warwick, Joe Wituschek, Oliver Haslam, Tammy Rogers, John-Anthony Disotto, Daryl Baxter, James Bentley, Karen Freeman, and others.

From one Apple blog to another, we wish the iMore team past and present all the best.

Article Link: Apple Blog iMore Shutting Down: 'One More Thing… Goodbye'
Big win for Macrumors 😏
 
I remember visiting these guys along with MR back in the early days of iPhone. Rene and a few others did some really solid reporting and it's always sad to see things like this sunset.
 
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Corporate journalism is dead. I still remember those ad filled magazines when the magazine itself was $10 and I am salty about it. And this new low effort AI generated article vomit is repulsive.

Today news and reporting moved to the individual, YouTuber, Instagramer , Twitter, heck even a subreddit user. I think the journalist make even more money by cutting out the corporate. IIRC a YouTuber makes $1000 per 1000K views , so if you make 4 videos a month at 200K views you will make $8000 month let alone sponsored videos.
 
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Rob Griffiths was a personal hero to me in the halcyon days of Tiger.
Rob put out a book about Mac OS X hints, too. I think for a while he was on staff at MacWorld, and wasn't MacWorld hosting the frozen carcass of macosxhints.com as well?

Anyway, as another commenter said, iMore was my goto for looking up bits of iOS arcana: how to deal with iTunes/Apple music, etc.

On the demise of iMore: google ads monopoly claims another victim.
 
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