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Yeap, I agree. I've been reading technological news from El Reg since around 2000 and their writing style has changed a lot, it's not as humorous as it used to be. Once of the only reasons to visit them nowadays is for the BOFH (new episode every Friday): https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
I have seen how the old style was, yes it different, but I wouldn't say its a run of the mill IT website.
Its reporting is pretty good, and they have good opinion pieces, like intel optane possible revolution for IT(1), tracking obfuscation by big tech (2) and safari WebKit limiting mobile web (3) articles.
1. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancella...
2. https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/23/opinion_column/
3. https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/06/big_techs_big_privacy...
There are other website like InfoWorld, which produced articles like how docker broke in half, however their website is annoying, and in general less focus on FOSS/Linux.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632142/how-docker-broke-i...
Weirder is what happened to its successor theinquirer.net? It was bought and then erased. Who does that? Was it a copyright thing? 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.
Funny enough, I stopped reading the Register after a few attempts because I disliked its headlines and tone. "To each his own" I guess.
You have to see it in the context of British tabloids (mass-readership, low-brow newspapers), especially of the 80s and 90s. The Register was emulating this style of irreverant journalism. For example have a look at some Sun headlines: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3654446.stm
No-longer “biting the hand that feeds IT”.
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Wrists (line 1), or you did actually mean 'lists'?
...given the '....suicide headlines'.
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digg dot com, metafilter dot com, reddit dot com, craigslist dot com - all still around but I no longer go to them because they have changed so much.