But there is a cost to manage and store a Forum. My guess is the review staff at DPReview was the bulk of the cost of the site and the cost of the Forums was less. A site that is lightly moderated to try and keep comments on topic and not allow too many personal attacks. Someone has to pickup the photography forum mantle. DPReview has actually been a part of my daily routine. But I have read many, many more threads over the years. I have posted these kinds of thing on DPReview many times (my profile says I have started 167 threads and made 1,589 comments). These are on-the-fly comments and questions. These are not formal article submission to a photo Website for review by an editor before publishing.
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Individual members can request a download of their own content (but I guess that will be just their own content, not the complete threads without which it won’t make a lot of sense). I’m guessing the Wayback Machine will preserve some content, but not the forums. There is a lot of content tied up on their forum servers as well as the editorial content. Love it or hate it, DPR has been the centre of photo forums in sheer scale throughout its existence.
I’ve been a member of DPReview since 2001 with nearly 24k posts on the forums. I’ll post an article later.Īll DP review readers are welcome here. But it’s not always so easy to grow and sustain them. This is yet another lesson of how much there is to be said for the survival of independent small and medium businesses who cherish being useful to their community without aspiring to commercial domination of the world. I don’t know why Phil Askey sold it to them in the first place, but it meant that DP Review is a very small business unit in a behemoth corporation, very much at the mercy of the grand corporate strategy and unless it is wildly profitable, extremely vulnerable to be steamrolled when shake-outs are on the table. Looked at in context, there has been a large blood-letting in the digital economy sectors over the past while with every indication that the shake-out is not over yet, and for quite some time now the viability of a number of photography websites has been shaky – apparently this niche is not a gold-mine, it’s more a labour of love and big corporations aren’t in business for love.ĭP Review was founded in 1998 and Amazon has owned it since 2007. I think this website would make a good follow-on resource for the DP Review readership, if many of them are not here already.
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