Bye Bye iMore

@JohnPhilpin ?

@JohnPhilpin 🤔?

@JohnPhilpin What was the last straw?

@pratik @Gabz @hjalm

I guess I should have been clearer - I am sure they are still around - but not in my RSS feed.

A couple of days ago - I was complaining about the stupidity of some of their posts - highlighting a specific one about how to use Apple Mail

@handy said ‘SEO’ ... and it suddenly it all made sense.

Today their feed was FULL of some Animal Crossing doofus ...

I scrolled through their history and decided that there is nothing they talk about that hits ‘interesting' ... that I am not already picking up from more worthwhile sites.

So BOOM

I remain unconvinced that my abandonment of their feed is going to change their editorial policy any time soon. But at least I feel better!

@JohnPhilpin I did see the Animal Crossing thing… I understand what you mean.

@JohnPhilpin Windows Central (same company) has been doing the same thing. Example: an entire article just to answer the question, “Is Microsoft Surface Go 2 available with LTE?” Makes so much more sense considering SEO.

@JohnPhilpin Ah-ha! I had never subscribed to them. Had always considered it as a site you would find thru Google Search when you had a specific issue. Plus after Serenity and Rene left, I dunno who’s around coz I always thought Rene owned it.

@pratik I’d forgotten the Serenity /Rene thing ... I wonder if they left because that was starting to happen more - or it just happened as soon as they left.