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Yes, you made a very valid point there and it is undeniable whether this covers the entire burden, I can’t say for sure.
I speak/write completely from my own feeling and I also realize that I’m “old” now (and I’m in good company with @pineapple coffee Obviously.

I understand what you mean, but it’s not a grumpy pre-plan I dare say as a veteran (I’ve been walking around here since 2000 and stalked before, who knows how long already) and ex-crew. If you run a news site that has a forum (when I signed up) that has a few thousand visitors or something, it knows us a lot more than a site that gets apparently hundreds of thousands, if not a million visitors every day. This is what I call “submission to your success”.

Add to that the fact that everything looked better in the past and you have a feeling that every change confirms. However, I cherish the connections I made during that time. We don’t meet physically, but I still talk to some of them and I love that a lot of them are still here.

I also wonder what would have happened to T.net if that geeky geek group had stayed the same. We now know what happened with the acquisition of VNU Media/DPG, but I don’t think it’s correct to say that otherwise T.net would have been exactly what it was 20 years ago.

This feeling is partly based on the things I already mentioned in the form of further commercialization/monetization of this community (via cookies, featured articles, etc.).
The technical level is also in a different order to appeal to a wider audience, sometimes I actually find articles on other DPG sites that are also here on Tweakers.

I would also like to say here: running an editorial office simply costs money. Some enthusiasts are used to posting them for free as volunteers, but if you want to improve the quality of your articles by sending people to trade shows and counting on them 40 hours a week, you should pay the journalists who write the articles. And all over the world, articles are shared between affiliates, which is quite normal. Does this affect the quality of the article? not mine. I continue to follow IT news on T.net to my full satisfaction.

Articles and premium subscriptions are part of the response to the many ad blockers we’ve all installed here. I remember very well the number of questions I asked “but I’m willing to pay a euro a month so that I don’t have to watch ads”. That’s exactly what I’m doing now, with the necessary discount because I’m active and have a certain karmic state. This way, my beloved T.net still gets its money, without bothering me with ad campaigns.

So it has become more unit rather than the nerd stature it used to be, which is what I rightfully called that in the last two decades computers/computers/ICT has become much more of a commodity and not just the domain of nerds who own water cooling blocks.

The target audience has become more mature. I also note that I’d rather spend a few hundred euros on a ready-made solution than start tweaking. I work 40 hours a week, get a good salary, and in my precious spare time I can’t wait to weld, saw, grind, do I know what to put in my computer. In the past, as a student and student, it was different: then I could walk away from those hundreds of euros for a few months

However, these geeks were a close (small) nice/stylish community and that (Spirit) no longer exists on the Tweakers platform (with all the negative consequences like a big fine as explained above). I may be 20 years older, but I still have a nerd who regularly stands with a soldering iron in my hand and prefers to share it with other geeks.

I won’t deny that I miss it, but I also don’t really see how it could have been different (realistically).