Ask HN: Do you still subscribe to any (printed) computing magazines?

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by vanilla-almond • 7 years ago
2 3 7 years ago

What are the computing magazines you subscribe to?

Or if you used to subscribe to a computer magazine but no longer do, what was the reason for unsubscribing?

I haven't subscribed to a computing magazine for many, many years. The last magazine I subscribed to was called PC Pro, a UK magazine that's completely fallen off my radar - but is surprisingly still in print (it launched in 1994). It used to be interesting and then at some point the Web made the magazine feel a bit irrelevant (as it did for many magazines).

Despite that, there are still lots of computer magazines in print in the UK, but they tend to focus on a particular niche or app e.g. digital drawing/illustration magazines, Photoshop magazines, Linux, Windows, Mac magazines, beginners magazines etc.

I'd buy individual copies of a magazine but I don't think I would ever subscribe to these.

What is the computing magazine scene like in your country?

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