Now that DPReview and the cultural heritage it contains have been shut down after around 25 years for purely capitalist reasons, many users have switched to other forums. But now the operators of the other forums are mostly private individuals, so that these forums are even more shaky than DPR. 25 years is a time that a single person hardly holds a website.
So what may be our future as DPR waifs?
Asks Johannes
It's still working where I am.
I see your point about ensuring that the forum is kept going in perpetuity. In order for this to happen it needs to have a substantial population of young people interested enough to take over the reins at the appropriate moment. Are there such people among the membership? Or are they quite happy with using their phones to take snaps? (Phone cameras are still being improved and we dont know when that will stop.)
Another interesting feature of this site is that it is being run from the UK. While I have no problem at all, I do wonder whether it will attract those in the Americas, who made up the majority of members of DPReview.
David
dpreview was established in 1998 and based in London, England, until it was acquired by Amazon in 2007
It was a global community from day-one.
It was also very much a capitalist enterprise from day one. Or at least the last 16 years.
“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”
Carl Gustav Jung.
There was much less competition in 1998!
By 2023, DPReview was largely US-centric, as seen by the references to Amazon.com and B&H and the other NY camera stores. Not that there werent people from other continents present, but the overall emphasis was on the US environment.
David
So, the deadline of April 10 has passed and DPR is still running with a vague hint that it could continue a while longer.
I call that being jerked around and am strongly inclined to quit posting there as DPR sinks slowly beneath the waves ...
I'm with you. seems like little point in extending until one day they close sometime soon. people have put in work to get other places such as here up and running and I feel like I want to help them more than post there anymore.
cheers
And, bearing in mind their monitoring robots, even opening their site ( e.g. lurking out of interest but not posting) will be noted and counted.
So, off with the bookmark and out with their cookies, eh?
Well this one's being set up so it isn't and can't be acquired by them (easily, anyway).
Job done ... 18:35 UTC 4/11/2023 ...
