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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:Offline archive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    They sell a DVD with the 1988-2009 archives on the site. Maybe there will be a last update.
    https://store.drdobbs.com

  2. hrmf... by hitmark · · Score: 4, Informative

    seems to be the pattern of media in general these days...

    Deep articles are going the way of the dodo. Not enough ad impressions etc on those as they appeal to a narrow audience.

    Shallow product "reviews" and flame baiting on the other hand...

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  3. Re:When nearly all of your readers block ads... by bzipitidoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, don't make the ads so obnoxious. I wouldn't block them if advertisers wouldn't pig out on my resources and force me to turn off the sound so I'm not embarrassed or distracted by some loud jingle, with blinking text, frenetic animation, and a flashing background. When ads take more than 5% of my bandwidth, RAM, and CPU, and make my browser unstable, I do something about it. If I have to reposition windows to hide obnoxiously distracting animation, I'll block it. IF it's not easy to block, I'll quit visiting the website.

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  4. Re:One of the cornerstones by Smerta · · Score: 4, Informative

    You guys know about sites like Computer Magazine Archive and Classic Computer Magazine Archive, right?

    (Got my start on Atari 800 w/ the 6502, never looked back... yes, I do have a lawn that I regularly chase kids away from!)