Rumors from La La Land...

[zwi]

It is now indeed unnerving to be inundated on the main MacRumors page with most irrelevant articles about new movies, series and albums.

MacRumors is one of the best macOS oriented tech sites of the Internet.

I visit your site quite frequently to get rumours on hard- and software developments, technical news and warnings as well as platform-oriented advice and I highly appreciate it.

If I am looking for corporate news from Apple or seek entertainment, there are other outlets and they are better suited for those topics.

Please at least move those non-pertinent news to a forum e.g „How Apple generates its turnover with entertainment content“.

I am positively tired to come here looking for vital news on the platform I need for daily work and need to stalk through a steadily growing swamp of irrelevant Hollywood gossip clogging a valuable tech news pipeline that I highly cherish!

Thank you!

 

[WildCowboy]

We're definitely aware that not everyone is interested in Apple's content news, but it's still relevant to the company so we're seeking to strike a balance. We try to keep it to one or two articles max per day on the topic, which means the vast majority of our articles are about other topics. More minor Apple TV+ news just goes straight into our guides on the topic without writing articles on it.

Not every article is going to be of interest to every reader, so we fully expect that many readers will skip over some of our content. (I remember the complaints from hardcore Mac users after the iPhone came around!)

We used to have separate iOS and Mac blog sections on desktop for more minor news, but we intentionally moved away from that to a single stream of articles as user patterns have evolved to heavier emphasis on mobile where our feed was always a single stream and social media consumption where every article stands alone anyway.

That said, we do appreciate the feedback and will continue to keep it mind.

 

[theSeb]

This is an excellent point and I think it could be rectified. Add a button on the front page that takes you to "Rumours" or "Rumors"

There is a nice gap for it in the navigation bar between forums and search, although it would make more sense to put it before Forums.

Every article that is a rumour needs two tags. "rumor" and "rumor_device_family", such as "rumor_MacBookAir".

When one clicks on "rumors" all articles tagged with "rumor" are returned. Of course you could easily do this with one tag and read the first 5 characters of the tag and check for "rumor", but that is not robust in my view.

Roundups could be redesigned slightly as well to easily navigate to all of the rumours about this "device family" and even show 5, or whatever, last ones. One could include Latest Rumors as a column, or below "at a glance".

There is similar functionality already if you scroll all the way down to the "device family timeline" bit, but that is a lot of scrolling and it does not show only rumours. So that bit could be left as is, because it's useful in its own right.

Sometimes I just want to double check the latest rumours of a "device family" before making a purchasing decision and finding just the rumours that are related to the "device family" is harder than it should be.