Two landmarks - 3000 members, 10000 posts

Indeed. Or most of those coming here anyway. DPR didn't remove inactive accounts. I joined early 2000 something when I got my first little digital camera. But I mainly lurked and soon lost interest (camera wasn't what I had hoped for). Then I didn't return until, I think, 2015, My account was till there and I managed to log in.

Fwiw, I told the admin guy there to close my account properly because the instructions he gave me didn't stop the account from being used again.

I won't be going back there :-)

Thank you very much for setting this site up.....giving hope to many who felt the loss of DPR was immense (which it is)

The camaraderie and friendship there will hopefully transfer here and this will soon become as active as DPR was.

I used to love the retouch forum but cannot see an equivalent here - or am I missing something please?

Once again, thank you for doing this...all credit to those involved.
Best wishes

Ray

Yes, I agree

That is excellent news, thank you for all your hard work.

Thank you very much.....really appreciated.~
Best wishes ray

I’ve seen the same person post a version of that same message in reply to a number of threads on DPReview and it’s pretty clear they’re just a proxy for whoever runs the “clone” site. What’s interesting about that place is that if you browse all the related “community” sites on there, dedicated to individual brands, many of them have posts dating back a year or two but have simply sat there and never taken off. So while the “clone” forum is new, that whole effort is clearly just trying to breathe life into a project that already failed some time ago.

DPRevived has the clear advantage of being a fresh new start IMO, and already has a much more open and friendly culture.

You should tell him, that you want him to delete all your personal date including your account based on article 17 GDPR.

It's unlikely DPReview falls under the jurisdiction of GDPR, as such, since that applies to the EU and DPR is based in the USA.

If they were intending to remain online and active, non-compliance with EU requirements might still present a problem, since the EU might seek to limit their reach or otherwise penalize them. Since they are about to go offline anyway, I'd guess that any such considerations would be moot.

No just not true
GDPR applies to EU citizen's data wherever in the world it is held

I think so too. I find these laws confusing, but someone in the know told me "my understanding is that most of these privacy laws apply to any website in the world that is used by someone living in the state/country/whatever that passed the law".

Is it too early to start worrying about spam accounts?

The website mentioned by DannoB is DPRForum.com is hosted in germany (its not dpreview.com). So this website falls under jurisdiction of GDPR