Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:01AM from the farewell-and-thanks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Dobb's — long time icon of programming magazines — "sunsets" at the end of the year. Editor Andrew Binstock says despite growing traffic numbers, the decline in revenue from ads means there will be no new content posted after 2014 ends. (The site will stay up for at least a year, hopefully longer.) Younger people may not care, but for the hard core old guys, it marks the end of a world where broad knowledge of computers and being willing to create solutions instead of reuse them was valuable. Binstock might disagree; he said, "As our page views show, the need for an independent site with in-depth articles, code, algorithms, and reliable product reviews is still very much present. And I will dearly miss that content. I wish I could point you to another site that does similar work, but alas, I know of none."

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Re:Pretty sad by rudy_wayne · 2014-12-16 11:29 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I was a subscriber back in the day. Sad to see it going, but it's not too surprising, given modern trends.
Ah yes. the modern trend of selling out.
From TFA:
"Our parent company, United Business Media (UBM), has decided to sunset Dr. Dobb's."
Like so many others, the founders were happy to collect a big pay day and walk away, leaving it in the hands of some other company who only cares about maximizing profits at the expense of all else. And when the profits can't be maximized to their liking they are happy to shut it down. Oh well, Dr. Dobbs lasted a lot longer than most, so I guess there's that.