In theory, I have no objection to bigger, more successful websites swallowing up smaller, also successful websites…that’s how business operates in the real world and in the digital. Fine.
But CNET keeps eating my good sites, sites that made sense, were easy to navigate, and were not obnoxiously bogged down with endless extraneous garbage.
First, it was Versiontracker. WAH… Gave up going there entirely after CNET mucked it all up and now they’ve eaten my beloved MacFIxit!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Go ahead and eat it, fine. Take the ad revenue, take the credit… BUT STOP FUCKING IT UP by BLENDING it with the rest of your fucking crap! It does not HELP me get what I want, it makes it a frustrating nightmare! I don’t want to search fucking CNET I want to search MACFIXIT!
So thanks for making two of my favorite sites fucking useless crap I will never turn to again.
Versiontracker and Macfixit were great sites. I used them almost daily back in the OS 9 era. I didn’t fully realize that I had moved on to other sites until this pitting. Cnet blew it…their own stuff used to be more user-friendly and helpful too.
What the fuck. I don’t know CNET or MacFixIt from a hole in the ground, but just clicking on those two links and you know this is a well deserved pitting. Good lord.
It’s not even there, really. They bought the name, ate the content and digested it, shit it out and moved on to other things. There’s no “there” there. ARGH!!!
Cnet also did even worse to TV Tome, which was sort of like a very early Wiki about every TV show and series. They bought it, threw away all of the user-created content, and redirected the URL to some bullshit TV guide type thing.
I also remember Jump the Shark going down the crapper. However, I just now stumbled onto this site, http://www.bonethefish.com/ , which is pretty much the same thing. It also includes stuff like music and websites.