Will you stay if DPReview doesn't close?

Hi,

I quit taking DPReview seriously about 3 nanoseconds after Phil sold it. For some years there, I was only active within a single thread. That being the Kodak DSLR one. And I had an alternative forum for that from Jarle Aasland over in Norway. Over time, of course, that forum on DP Review slowed to a trickle. But I picked up with the Medium Format forum when that was created.

Both of those are here, so that works for me. Otherwise I just eyeball the thread activity list and see what's going on elsewhere. Not that I'm ever going down another rabbit hole with something else. It's all very much a case of The Same Thing, Only Different as we say in engineering.

Stan

DPReview said they were closing, so if they don't do it now, there is a good chance they will do it sooner or later. Better to invest your forum time and energy in something that has a future like this, and not have all your posts abruptly deleted. But for photography content (reviews, articles, comparisons, etc) I'm sure we will all keep using DPReview while it is still available.

Considering they just release a new "DPTV" video review of the Nikon Z8 with Richard Butler as the host, and based on the comments he did, I don't think they are going to close.

Nikon Z8 first look

5:08 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXvMI9TaTA

My generation is pronounced generation zee but I agree we should be saying zed.

I'm happy to stay on this site, its much more engaging than DPReview.

San x

Zed just sounds so funny. 😀

According to Oxford Languages it is "Zee 8".

I'm starting to agree with this. And when I posted a link to someone that had a petition online, I was told it would never affect the outcome, and /or Amazon wouldn't change their mind. Since then we moved from closing and deleting, to closing but keeping read only. As I said, starting to think it's not going anywhere. Though the petition may have had nothing to do with it, but who knows?

Apparently any english words that have z in it. E.g. Customize. Was actually the original english spelling. Then we emigrated to the US, they kept the Z spellings and we changed to the S E.g. Customise.

Not all Gen-Zed/Zee are dull we do learn some things about history 😀

San x

sandyjenning wrote: I'm happy to stay on this site, its much more engaging than DPReview.

Yay… me too. lol

Despite my initial scepticism, I'm also slowly starting to backtrack a bit and consider it actually possible that Amazon may either be negotiating selling the site with some party or actually deciding to keep it in operation themselves after all. It's been a month since the initial closing date and it's hard to think making the archival preparations would take this long.

As for the poll, I'm in the camp "might as well haunt both in that case".

I think the camera comparison tool should be keep as an stand-alone website. For the rest of DPR I couldn't care less if it is gone. If they stay (which I think will happen) desperately need a new video host, Richard Butler totally lacks the charms to be a Youtuber.

Maybe it has been shut down and the computers running it have been paid to be on for a while yet. I don't know. Amazon probably have 100000's of computers and they missed the DPReview site computer.

San x

It seemed to me that the minority fora were less confrontational than others; for example Sigma vs CaNikOny and Tech vs. Open or Beginners ...

... good to meetcha, BTW.

Happily stay here, visit dpreview for archives.

I no longer have an account on the old place, I voluntarily asked for it to be closed after being sandboxed for the first and only time. I do still visit as a lurker when google shows it to have the answer to an obscure tech question (which the forums inevitably do). If it goes archive only I'll still get those answers for older kit up to closure date.