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  • sartalon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No, the issue we are talking about today and calling Ars an “internet rot site” is a huge leap. Yeah, they post shit articles from Wired and such, (they are owned by Conde Nast), but their core writers are still great and have plenty of good articles.

    You want credit for what? Over exaggerating an issue then whining about it?

    You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then spitting on the baby. It makes no sense.

    • Hypx@piefed.social
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      20 hours ago

      It’s one of the stages of enshittification. Unless we see hard changes to avoid further decay, Ars will inevitably get worse and and worse until it does become an “internet rot site.”

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        10 hours ago

        My point still stands.

        You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

        But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

        Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

        The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

        They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

        A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

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          They are failing at basic editorial controls. This is not a “pretty good fucking job.” It is a sign of real decline.

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            Right.

            And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

            Wake up. The decline has already happened. It’s now a game of compromise.

            You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

            It’s ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y’all look petulant.

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      It’s been going downhill for some time. I think the Condé Nast investment pretty much killed it. The last unnecessary site redesign that didn’t work correctly and made things unreadable was the last straw for me. I took it out of my rotation of “daily reads” and haven’t missed it.

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      @sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.

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        Ars has been around since the mid 1990s. Granted the sale to Conde Nast changed them slowly over time, as well as broadening the focus significantly, but it was likely a case of grow or die since the PC nerd market isn’t anywhere near what it used to be.

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        23 hours ago

        Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?