So now it looks like a living website. Hmmmm?
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Hi,
Insert Month Python routine here....
I'm not dead!
:P
Stan
Its just a flesh wound.....
Gone from my tablet and desktop, still on my phone.
Fresh news: "Our forums also remain open and continue to be supported."😀
And a fresh new update that says ... nothing. It's like they are running a disinformation campaign against, well, what exactly?
“You are what makes DPReview special.”
LMAO
I don't know what they're planning but I said from the very beginning, since the announcement, that I'll be surprised if it actually closes. We'll see.
A sort of afterthought to the content part of the site?
My guess is that there are negotiations ongoing either internally within Amazon or with a third party about selling DPR, and DPR management aren't allowed to share any actual details until the negotiations are finished.
Not a bad guess. Still, that would have started only after the initial closure announcement (so an external party that wasn’t privy to the internal mid-January announcement). A messy process that has damaged the site
I've seen corps do this crap before. No trust in anything they do.
Yes, even if DPR will successfully continue operations, many people have moved on due to the mess and won't come back anymore. That on top of shrinkage due to market changes and somewhat aging audience is a problematic combination. They'll need to figure out how to draw in new users somehow.
If they have sold it, it will be interesting to see what emphasis the new owners put on forums as opposed to whatever else they may have purchased it for.
Alan
But if it rises like Lazarus, will there be an amnesty for all the people they sandboxed or banned in the the so called "last days" when a lot of moderation scores were settled or people got nicked for posting about other sites or for making comments about the running of DPR forums here and elsewhere. It seems lots of people cannot post there anymore, unless of course the do a name changing act.
I think many will need to change their name if they go back after the DPR Moderators Still At It thread.
As far as I am concerned, the forums are the content. I care very little about the rest.
Yesbutno. While I mostly visited the forum, I also regularly checked the news and read articles that interested me. As a business proposition that part may be viable
