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Please cut back on Apple TV content news, or at least consolidate them into a mega thread
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I am checking the website less because of it.
We're going to be cutting it down.
There's a loose plan for something like that, but it's behind a few other steps.
I don't think I'll be missing much if I hide AppleTV news, and I doubt I lose anything of signifance if I can hide all of the political posts that have comments disabled anyways.
Oh, yeah, those ones piss me off too. I would block all the posts with comments disabled as well.
an echo chamber of only product news and not apple tv? what?!
It takes time to decide if an article is interesting for me or not.
I'd love a filter that excludes news about Apple product areas I care nothing about. It could also be interesting to have an opposite-filter-settings button (Show Me The Rest) that presented only all the stuff I normally choose to ignore... for when I *might* care or have copious free time.
Getting Macrumours back on track would be nice:
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2010: (Its still rather pure with no crap)
Of note and what I miss most is seeing Digital Video, Digital Photography, Design & Graphics, and Web Development being on the home page. Its like Macrumours dropped people helping each other for entertainment news and politics.
2000:
2010: (Its still rather pure with no crap)
Of note and what I miss most is seeing Digital Video, Digital Photography, Design & Graphics, and Web Development being on the home page. Its like Macrumours dropped people helping each other for entertainment news and politics.
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I don’t think you can turn back the clock to when Mac was the big story.
However, while Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch, HomePod, iCloud, Apple TV hardware etc. form a sort of continuum which would be hard to split up. News about TV shows - and ATV+ content is just TV shows - is really nothing to do with that and is much better served by other sites (esp. IMDB where it gets cross referenced with tons of data on shows and artists). We got through the iPod era without too many stories about bands releasing new albums or winning Grammys - no reason ATV+ should be different.
Or, to put it another way, please let’s not hear about the second ATV+ show to get a Blu-Ray release on these pages...
Well, I can turn back the clock. But regardless, Macrumours of ten years ago had Mac news interspersed with iTunes news and the latest iOS or tablet news. What is mainly different is the focus on the front page changed to kill off creative and engineering topics. The homepage has slowly been filling up with political nonsense. The homepage promotes products (good or bad). And we have to wade through all the latest 'music' and TV like it is some TV weekly magazine you get with your newspaper.
Amazingly I don't come to this site to see who I can argue with today. I want to see the spy shot of the latest Apple product and where possible help folks with their Swift project and perhaps even have a nose at some new software review.
The homepage at time of writing has six articles I would expect on this site with two of those being page two material. A subway accepting Apple Pay isn't news, thats an expectation. Deals on AirPods, well shove them on a deals page. WhatsApp doing something... isn't Apple specific. Some third party exploding charger can also be shoved of to a deals page. Apple employees wanting fair treatment is all well and good, just disable the comments they are always full of people wanting slaves because they are miserable in their own jobs. The latest album by some singer... aren't their entertainment sites about? A story round up... if you stop posting rubbish then you don't need a roundup.
I’d love to see a cut down on deal posts as well as odd things like “car reviews”
Ted Lasso news is annoying when it is posted almost every day about how it might win an award or some product placement junk.
At this point I've been blocking "Ted Lasso" anywhere I'm able to.
I'm totally exhausted hearing it pumped and hyped all over.
It's a bloody TV show - you'd think they cured cancer by how often people can't stop "raving" about it.
Could be that there's just not a lot of Mac or iHardware news at the moment - or even much in the way of "new" software (everybody seems to be busy leveraging the synergy of the post-neo-web-3.0 distributed enterprise AI serverless community). I guess it is all reflecting the sad fact that the Mac is now a minor string in Apple's largely-consumer-oriented bow.
I fully agree that it is odd that the "Community" forums rate an entry on the front-page sidebar while the "developers" and "special interest" sections don't. Those sections seem to have become a bit dead in recent years - whether that's why they aren't on the front page or because they aren't on the front page is an interesting question...
The problem, in my opinion, is that MR zigged when Apple zagged. MR chose to consolidate all stories to the front page and at the same time, Apple became more and more diverse with their offerings. There was also the conscious choice to monetize the site more through (essentially) sponsored posts, affiliate link articles, and just plain strange choices.
If there is no hardware or software news, then there is no news. It is perfectly ok not to put up filler on the homepage until there is actual news.
