Curious if beginners will find this place?

So far it’s a repository for knowledgeable folks to share their knowledge with other knowledgeable folks. I’m sure these things take time. I wonder how long before google searches by curious minded beginners will lead them here as a place to have their questions answered?

dprevived is being mentioned / discussed on dozens of photography, social media and technical websites / forums across the Internet.
As traffic to this site builds along with content indexed by bots / spiders, it won’t be long before it’s on page-one of google.

I betcha 20 cookies. lol

Googlebot is a special software, commonly referred to as a spider, designed to crawl its way through the pages of public websites.

I'm not convinced it's a good name for the longer term - if you were a newbie looking for advice on digital cameras or digital photography I'm not sure you'd think a forum called "DP Revived" would be relevant for you. Not in the way that, for example, "Imaging Resource" might be.

Makes sense. And in my initial comment, I completely realize this forum is in its infancy yet. I’m guessing time was the solution for DP Review as well.

I'm kinda curious about how long they can go on without the DPReview 150 post limit. 1000 posts? 5000 posts? Should we take bets? 😑

The DPReview Beginner forum was my favorite place, this one isn't. So far, any beginner questions I've seen have been posted in other areas. Right now, my guess is this forum is far too intimidating for someone that just wants to know why their photos are blurry or noisy or why there are dark spots in their pictures.

... but, frankly speaking, I fail to see the "beginners questions" these long discussions are meant to reply to.
What I see, and fear, is the risk to fall into reinventing the wheel.
BTW: the beginner photographer has already available very good resources where to learn the basics of digital photography: is it really necessary for DPRevived to add another one?

I think any forum with decent traffic eventually gathers more momentum through Google searches.

Agree 100%. If anything they’ll just scare beginners off. Beginners want to know why they get better results with their phone. Why their pictures aren’t sharp. How to nail focus.

50 paragraphs on the technical details of what ISO really is or isn’t or might be, using scientific jargon won’t help take good pictures of my kid playing soccer.

There should be a technobabble sub-forum just for that kind of fun. For those that want to get deep in the weeds.

Hoping that you are listened to 👍🏻

I'm a beginner and recently joined this site - I managed to find this category quite easily.

Cool! How did you find it? Were you a DPReview member, or did some other path lead you here? Just curious, and glad to see that you found it.

Yes, I was a prior DPReview member. I was afraid of losing the platform so I migrated here.

I agree, perhaps that is what the Photographic Science and Technology category is for?

So you didn’t just stumble across this place looking for answers to your beginner photography questions. That’s what I’m curious about. It’ll be interesting to watch as things unfold. No doubt DPR took years to become what it was / is. And that was with a fairly young internet and newer medium.

Fortunately we are here as are knowledgeable people that can answer our questions when they arise. Hopefully in a clear and concise fashion where appropriate.

Fortunately we are here as are knowledgeable people that can answer our questions when they arise. Hopefully in a clear and concise fashion where appropriate.
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Clear and concise is always a bonus.

I remember how I found DPR for the first time: I googled some camera question or another, and on the top of my search responses was something from someone's post on that subject in DPR. So I clicked on it and found DPR and then signed up as I found the site very useful. Seems like the same thing would eventually happen here once there are enough posts built up on various subjects.

So far I have never seen DPRevived included in the results of Google searches that I have done. It is probably there but too far down the list for me to find it.

However, I prefer to use duckduckgo.com as it doesn't track users for advertising purposes. To my surprise, it has included some DPRevived results near the top of some of my searches.

Yet another reason to prefer duckduckgo over Google!

While it is a site, given the demographics, I would guess that most people are using the App on mobile. And the name Tik Tok is no penalty there. Its pretty catchy and easy to remember.

I agree. Google spiders search for relevant matching phrases related to your search, free of advertising lingo or links to selling product. It takes time for the spiders to find all that, and the content has to be there for them to find. I work for a book publisher specializing in automotive tech for enthusiasts. We created some automotive DIY websites with the idea of gathering email names and funneling people to our commerce site. These DIY sites were filled with tech articles from the books we publish, so we had a ton of keyword rich content with no advertising lingo available as soon as we could digitize it which doesn't take long. It took about 6-12 months before we started showing up on page one of a Google search.

The same was true of DPR. It had so much content with reviews and a robust forum, the SEO is fantastic. I think this site, if we really want to get more beginners here, could benefit from pinned beginners how to articles. I am thinking more beginner than what I have seen here so far. So many beginner questions are the old What Camera Should I Buy. These are people who are usually just getting started , the queries will be really basic. If we had a fair amount of pinned content to cover the kinds of questions that we think they would ask. Say, maybe a pin that addresses shooting in something other than P mode, where we cover why people use aperture priority or shutter priority, the advantages of either, etc. The stuff you would find in a beginners photography book. I think that is the kind of content that would draw people here in more volume that exposure triangle stuff. My two cents.

Edit: I just noticed the answers to common questions. That's a great start. I am not sure if the would be more effective for search with replies turned off or not.