Comments on: What’s Up With The Download Squad

By: conedude13

conedude13 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:43:29 +0000

I spoke with someone from DLS (don’t know if i should use the name or not, didn’t get his permition) and he said that this story is making a mountain out of a mole hill and is being completely exaggerated and that everyone over there is just too busy and they were spending a lot of time doing some sort of research.

But only time will tell, but looks like posts have picked up a bit more today.

By: darkkosmos

darkkosmos — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:40:15 +0000

They started posting again but I agree with the comments here, Lifehacker is getting Mac’ed up even though most of it’s readers are on windows and downloadsquad is just boring..

By: GRTerrero

GRTerrero — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:01:40 +0000

iampriteshdesai is correct. LH has become a marketing arm for Apple.

Is someone getting paid over there?

By: GRTerrero

GRTerrero — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:00:06 +0000

I was scratching my head wondering the same thing this morning.

I just thought to myself that these guys must be on summer hiatus.

By: MK

MK — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:06:23 +0000

@iampriteshdesai idk, since i started reading blog on 2008 anyway. but yeah, LH is as dull Makeuseof, full of digg-baiting, 10-services-you-cant-live-without type of posts.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:50:12 +0000

Of late Amit’s blog Digital inspiration has become quite boring to say the least. Uptil start of 2008 he used to post interesting things but now his quality has gone down.

By: MK

MK — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:07:55 +0000

well i’ll always have my daily Ghacks, Cybernet, AppScout, and Digital Inspiration. and ocassionally RWW

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:10:14 +0000

And that’s why I read Ghacks. You seem to write for us and for yourself, and the money comes after that. Sites like Download Squad write for money and it shows. Not only in the content, but also when the money dries up, the site dries up as well. No thanks, my time is limited and I’ll only read those who do it for the love of technology, not for the money.

By: Avatar

Avatar — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:16:54 +0000

A former AOL blogger (that got “cut off”) told me that they have fired everyone but Brad from Download Squad. i don`t know if this is true. but i also find it insane that a blog with 2 million uniques is not being monetized properly.

It is also one of my favorite blogs. but i wonder how this will affect ghacks and digital inspiration. your numbers and amit numbers should be growing faster that usual right?.

By: liz

liz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:31:37 +0000

Wait, let me get this straight. AOL is practically bribing bloggers with millions of visitors to stop posting — because it’ll save them some money? Are you kidding me?

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:33:49 +0000

That’s Fishy. I had been wondering my my Feed readers was not showing anything from them until I checked the site. No updates.

Money cant be a reason with the amount of traffic. Is it getting sold ? So new authors will be in or something ?

By: paulo

paulo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:27:02 +0000

That is too bad. They are part of my daily must read dozen along with ghacks. If nothing else, this should serve a warning shot to bloggers that are tied to AOL.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:03:03 +0000

Even I like Download Squad more than Lifehacker. Of late LH seems to be over obssed with iPhone and Macs. Also they post so many useless, timepass DIY hacks. LH is getting boring :-0