Yeah, the Condé Nast buyout really crippled what was an amazing independent tech news site.

The sad thing is, I don't know of anywhere else that comes close to what Ars was before.

Does anywhere else even come close to the Ars of today? (For the sake of this question, assume a best-case response to this LLM-hallucinated article.)

I'm genuinely asking - I subscribe to Ars - if their response isn't best-case, where could I even even switch my subscription and RSS feed to?