Tom’s Hardware Sold for $15-$20 Million

As a sign of generosity... they are going give $1 to each member for each post made.

Hey, I have enough for a CPU!!










.... this is FUD... j/k

All I know is if they don't kill the damn google ads INSIDE threads I'm going to be done with the place all together..

Adblock ftw. I haven't seen an ad here for months.

Firefox - NoScript and Firefox Ad blocking and Norton Pop-up and Ad-Blocker All turned on, I haven't seen Ad's in the Forums for months now too

Adblock ftw. I haven't seen an ad here for months.

Too funny, I did not even realize there were ads!

nothing quite like the well-respected independent selling out to corporate america...well it was apparent something was going on with the bad changes THG has made over the past year but for such a paltry sum? you couldn't find someone to buy your soul for more? oh that's right...THG has degraded over the years to what it is today and as such its not worth the server it runs on.

good luck sell-outs, thanks for ruining what was once the pinnacle of tech websites. hope that cool 15mil keeps you warm at night knowing how many people now curse your name for being such n00bish wannabe's that at the first hint of a windfall you roll over and become corporate america's bitch.

Sign up to get your 1$ a post cash in.

Sadly for those bemoaning the quality of Toms Hardware, this changing of guard will do nothing to "improve" the quality of the articles or change the color scheme of the main portal.

Clarification: This is my opinion. Deal with it. =p

Corporate France, as it were.

For the sake of all of us, I hope you are wrong Ninja.

Now com'on guys - hang in there. Its not time to throw in the towel just yet. We still have the forumz. Honestly, thats the only reason I come to this site anymore. Hopefully someone will read this crap and decide to do something about it. I JUST KNEW IT WAS A BUYOUT!

in my anger i only assumed THG had some measure of dignity to sell out to americans...but no, they went with the french...maybe we can get some articles on SELLING NUCLEAR REACTORS TO IDIOT RADICAL MUSLIM DICTATORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST...that would fall in line with both parties, THG selling out to the french and the french selling out to Iran...see a trend here?

THG devient le site d’Internet des gens qui retourne leur vestes maintenant...merci d'avoir vendu vos âmes pour absolument rien de tout...cet espèce de saloperie va être jamais oublié !

Just wait for R600 in a couple of weeks, but I can't see it getting too ugly until Brisbane.

Omid was in charge of the new designs....


THG is entertaining, but its reviews [and articles] carry as much value as an Inq story. They're entertaining, but you take them with a grain of salt.

I stick to Anandtech for anything I take seriously. If not for the forums, I'm not sure I'd even check THG.


On a side-note, I wonder how much of that traffic is a result of (1) Google news redirects to TGDaily and (2) the forums. My money is on the better half of 50%.

Well it appears that many of us were correct, the site was for sale. What's funny is not a single rumor broke, yet we all had a pretty good idea that it was happening.

Back on March 29th, I had this to say about the site:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/THG [...] sc-50.html

I hate to say I told you so...

<shrugs>

What can you? ;-)

The French are very concervative and they might even start limiting the "content" in the forumz. Still cant believe THG removed my BOOTH BABE of the month suggestion.

But listen, how can you guys hate Omid for selling out. It's just business. You would have done the same if you were in his shoes. He could use the money to start up his own gig once his non-compete expires, maybe in a year or so. Have more freedom to explore more compelling ideas. It was a wise decision, but unfortunately guys like you and me will be harmed. The only way to force change of content is to just get bored of this site and stop visiting. Check in once a month or so to see if anything they write is interesting. I would say channel your anger to Anandtech, and get them to support a scrolling forumz site. That way there will be a mass exodus, forcing the new owners to step up or ship out. Its the free market. As long as we keep coming here, nothing will change.

I'm looking forward to taking on the French. They'll likely be true to their heritage and surrender immediately!

Hey thanks. I found my BOOTH BABES post. Awesome man. Seems like others votes YAY, although not many. I wonder how many people actually visit the forumz.

@ Bald Eagle and FishBoi: A BIG thumbs up!

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Amongst other things, I'm mostly a consumer. I look forward to tests and reviews of current hardware, and also informed previews of what is coming up.

I stuck to Toms because of these needs, and have been viewing the site for years. However in the last 12 months, like a lot of others here, I'm finding my news elsewhere quicker and in more detail. I'm not talknig about fud sites or Inquirer-esque articles, just other hardware enthusiast sites.

Yes, the forum is still ok, but not special. It's ok for people who have been here for a while but for a new member just joining and asking what to many may appear to be a silly question, it's a nightmare, 3/4 of the forum population treat them like crap and they're gone before the other 1/4 give them decent advice and answers - very few new people will stay.

Nobody new comes here for the forums though, it's the reviews and previews. Forget the news, everyone has it.

If it's to remain an enthusiast site, get the inside track. Take that ATI engineer out, forcefeed him / her with Tequila until you get that R600 back to the lab. Personally, I don't mind all the other articles you write as long as the core PC hardware principle is stuck to. If the focus is changing, just say. But the key is:

STAY UP TO DATE!

Too often, we're arriving here on the forums discussing a review or benchmark uploaded somewhere else. I can get an RSS feed or 100 for that, so get back on the ball.