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Funny enough, I stopped reading the Register after a few attempts because I disliked its headlines and tone. "To each his own" I guess.
I still have it in my bookmark bar, but as I still cant get the favicon to load properly in Firefox, I forget to click on it :)
Mike Magee was co founder of the Register and established its style. He left in 2001, and the Register has been declining ever since.
Once of the only reasons to visit them nowadays is for the BOFH (new episode every Friday): https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
I can see how someone might not allow that to happen and then just milk the thing.
Mike Magee was co founder of the Register and established its style. He left in 2001, and the Register has been declining ever since.
I remember them occasionally featuring a fragment of a poem by Alexander Pope:
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."
The politics (identity and anti-Trump reddit-style) stuff crept in too, especially from its San Fran office, but you could obviously just choose to ignore those articles. It's not something I want from a tech site though.
It's a shame, ElReg and Slashdot used be my go-to site for tech content.
Otherwise theregister hit that brief window between professional magazine publishing and every teenager with a phone becoming a tech blogger, the brief window when website publishing was cheap but not yet overcrowded.