We cover PC hardware, gaming, and the tech industry in general, but lots of sites do that. What’s different here is the people. If you think all Internet conversation is rude and stupid, you don’t know Icrontic. While the term “community” is casually thrown around by bloggers and “Web 2.0″ folks, here it actually means something.

Icrontic is a close-knit group of friends who welcome newcomers. No, not “Internet friends.” We’re “fly across the country to Icrontic HQ for the weekend” friends. We help each other with tech problems, play games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 together (imagine a game server without insults and slurs, if you can), share our lives, cheer each other on, and support each other when life goes sour.

One of the things we hear most frequently from new members is “Why couldn’t I have found this place years ago?” Some of us have been lucky enough to have been here for most of the ride, and what a strange and fun journey it’s been.

Yeah, we’re a bunch of geeks. We love analyzing tech trends, publishing technical guides, and reviewing hardware and games. But if all you’re doing is reading the RSS feed, you’re totally missing out on what makes this place awesome. We’re Living the Icrontic Life.

Contact us

Icrontic is pwnt owned and run by Brian Ambrozy (the editor-in-chief) and Matt Lincoln Russell (the developer). Peter G. (industry rep) and Robert Hallock (tech analyst) are our lead tech editors and all-around content gurus. Our community staff comprises a long list of people who’ve dedicated hundreds of hours of work for the betterment of Icrontic.

• Press releases: news [at] icrontic.com
• Advertising: http://icrontic.com/advertising
• Everything else: editor [at] icrontic.com
• Phone Icrontic HQ: 586-693-3509 (US)

You could also catch us in IRC if you’re exceptionally daring.

Colophon

Icrontic is running on Wordpress and vBulletin. It uses a homegrown plugin named “Glue” to integrate the two that I’m sure we’ll publish one day (still some bugs to work out). Fun fact: Wordpress is our sixth content management system (migrations are fun! yay!) but we’ve always run the forum on vBulletin.

Icrontic’s platform is Red Hat and Apache running on dual Opteron 850s in a server named mortin since May 2005. It was previously a Poweredge 350 named bart and started as spare parts in Mortin’s closet.

Hey, thanks for stopping in. We hope you stay and say hello.