24 May 2010

Move Over, Stuff


There was a time when stuff.tv was my number 1 spot for technology news. However, times are changing and now engadget is my favourite for a number of reasons. First, the reviews are better because they are in more depth and are unbiased, whereas stuff gives their Hot Buy to just about every device which means it is basically worthless now.
Also, the journalism is better in engadget with people like Joshua Topolsky, Chris Ziegler and more. Stuff.tv has people who aren’t that great to listen to and don’t present podcasts very well.
Engadget doesn’t have a forum, but stuff’s isn’t great with few posts and many spammers on it. Despite being one of the top posters on the forums, I don’t like it very much any more and I’m not going to put the effort in if I’ve got better stuff… like tumblr!
Engadget also coverages the latest news fantastically well, whereas stuff doesn’t report on everything and often is late to report by a day, which is quite a lot. Stuff also seems to be unsure of itself. Its news feed is filled with stuff I’d put in the blog section, but then they’d have nothing in the news. Engadget just reports on news and does reviews. Simple.
Stuff wasn’t always like this. Go through the news archive and there were times when there would be a plentiful number of posts per day on news specifically and decent posts in the blog section. But times have changed and so has the quality of the site so now engadget is my favourite.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Totally agree, i used to be a stuff addict, posting regularly and often checking the site for new news and forum posts, but sometimes DAYS can go by with no activity on the forums. I have totally transferred to engadget for my technological news fix, and i now regularly post on the maemo.org forums as it offers a whole myriad of advice for my N900 and there is a fantastic community of developers and coders who are often more than happy to help!

James said...

Yeah for a specific device like yours the forums there would be spot on. I still go there from time to time, but not nearly as much.

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