This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/apple by /u/torsteinvin on 2024-12-30 03:16:04+00:00.

Example of a recurring “article”. Macrumors that I used to know and love and read daily for over 15 years or so… I don’t even recognize it anymore.

Every week there are so many “articles” that I can only classify as ads or spam. They are unrelated to Apple news or rumors and are just straight up “best deals on usb-hubs for Macs on Amazon. Click these links”. Or “Lowest ever price on Anker products” or “CleanMyMac, X percent off for MR readers” etc. Fair enough, many of the Amazon affiliate links posts are about Apple products with a 5-10% discount, but come on, is this a blog about Apple news and rumors or mostly a “great deals”-website?

Much of Macrumors’ content the last year or two, has very little value to any reader who’s interested in the world of Apple. You have to scroll past so many ads disguised as articles and there are so many lazy articles to, like the beta-release-articles.

I get it, clicks generate ad revenue, but why is MR writing a new blog post about every single new beta-release? “Apple has release a new Apple TV beta” is one article. “HomePod receives new x.x.x beta x” is another. macOS gets a new beta x.x.x. beta x" is a third “article”. And every one of them has the same copy-paste content from the myriad of similar articles from prevous new-beta-posts: “we dont yet know whats new in this release but we can expect improvements and bug fixes and under the hood changes”. Why not just write one post and put all the newly released beta numbers in that? Macrumors has become so trashy and lazy.

Sorry for ranting, but the Macrumors I used to love and be excited about exists no more. It’s so much about pushing deals, affiliate links and generating as many clicks as possible by churning out lazy articles. I tried writing this on MR forum for a fruitful discussion and hopefully a change of course, but the moderators mercilessly suspended me. lol.