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DPR has removed the closing down warning

gordo
May 11, 2023
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    davidwien
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    May 13, 2023, 7:12 p.m. May 13, 2023, 7:12 p.m.
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    @rodriguezPhoto has written:

    My main concern is for the long running thread that I have helped keep going for the last six years.

    There are several threads here that already look like they will run longer than Alistair Cooke's Letter from America. 😃

    David

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    rodriguezPhoto
    Members 681 posts
    May 13, 2023, 7:42 p.m. May 13, 2023, 7:42 p.m.
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    @davidwien has written:
    @rodriguezPhoto has written:

    My main concern is for the long running thread that I have helped keep going for the last six years.

    There are several threads here that already look like they will run longer than Alistair Cooke's Letter from America. 😃

    David

    But probably not with the same host stability. I am at least the seventh thread manager for the Sunday Cat!

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    DMCO
    Members 244 posts
    May 13, 2023, 7:57 p.m. May 13, 2023, 7:57 p.m.
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    IMO, DPR needs to either close “now” or announce it it staying open. The time is here.

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    StanDisbrow
    Members 502 posts
    May 13, 2023, 9:33 p.m. May 13, 2023, 9:33 p.m.
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    Hi,

    I expect someone is negotiating and we won't know the details. Maybe ever, but details to tend to leak out once the deal has been finalized. In the meantime, I'll continue on there as I have for the past 23 years and not be concerned about exactly what day it goes away or doesn't.

    And of course it will change. It has always changed. And that won't change.

    For example: We used to talk about all makes and models of ILC digital cameras in the Pro Digital Talk forum....because all such things were for professionals and not amateurs. That changed quite early on, but if anyone wants they can go back to the beginning in that forum and see for yourself.

    Stan

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    Greg
    Members 518 posts
    May 13, 2023, 9:46 p.m. May 13, 2023, 9:46 p.m.
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    It’s not closing… see Richard Butler’s comments here…
    dprevived.com/t/will-you-stay-if-dpreview-doesnt-close/3026/post/34361/

    From this video…
    dprevived.com/t/will-you-stay-if-dpreview-doesnt-close/3026/post/33998/

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    lmans
    Members 73 posts
    May 13, 2023, 10:22 p.m. May 13, 2023, 10:22 p.m.
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    DP Review should charge $10 per person....they would make a mint. Or yes, as someone said, some porn company should step in and make digital porn (DP) as they would make a ton of money hands over.

    I too am fascinated with the obsession with the DP site.....It was just a site and many times it was 'petty', 'offensive', 'attacking' , clique-ish', and 'loaded with postcard type images people take' ... Often times I found it best to vacate for months at a time to catch my breath and catch my breath.

    I enjoyed some of it though as , just like on this site....one could ask questions and someone would reply..... a good place to know about a camera/lens when I was looking at buying.... gaining knowledge about photography subjects...and while it was centered on digital, there was still quite a bit on film within that site as well. So, it had great points too, but to the point of obsession?

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    Greg
    Members 518 posts
    May 13, 2023, 10:49 p.m. May 13, 2023, 10:49 p.m.
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    People obsess about all sorts of things, my neighbor washes his car every Saturday, 52 weeks of the year.
    To talk to, he seems like a normal guy. lol

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    JACS
    Members 878 posts
    May 13, 2023, 11:14 p.m. May 13, 2023, 11:14 p.m.
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    @Greg has written:

    People obsess about all sorts of things, my neighbor washes his car every Saturday, 52 weeks of the year.
    To talk to, he seems like a normal guy. lol

    But last year had 53 Saturdays!

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    StanDisbrow
    Members 502 posts
    May 14, 2023, 12:37 a.m. May 14, 2023, 12:37 a.m.
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    Hi,

    The photo gear I'm most interested in is the medium format stuff. Right now there are two threads posted to in the past 24 hours. Here.

    There are eight threads posted to over there.

    This site is the most active of three DP Review Replacement sites I have been following. But DP Review is still the most active. Ever though it's well past the published expiration date.

    I don't know about any of the other forums. I shall keep on both here and there. But here, I head to the Threads list a couple times a day and so wind up eyeballing different things here than I do there.

    Stan

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    Ghundred
    Members 761 posts
    May 14, 2023, 6:27 a.m. May 14, 2023, 6:27 a.m.
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    @xpatUSA has written:
    @Ghundred has written:

    What's the obsession with DPreview? Lots of you sound like jilted partners who have never gotten over their first boyfriend/girlfriend. What's with that?

    A bit confrontational that, I reckon. I spent a dozen years on their Sigma forum, longer than my first marriage.

    www.dpreview.com/forums/post/67033220

    Are you honestly saying that time spent talking lenses & technicalities on an interwebz forum is as important as that spent in a marriage/relationship?

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    43review
    Team 234 posts
    May 14, 2023, 7:22 a.m. May 14, 2023, 7:22 a.m.
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    @DMCO has written:

    IMO, DPR needs to either close “now” or announce it it staying open. The time is here.

    Things seem to be quite clear right now.
    The site will/may be sold to a new owner.
    The new Owner will/may announce that the forum will stay open.(Everything else would be crazy)

    But what will happen when the dust has settled?

    Will be interesting to see with company/concept is behind the new Owner.

    With Image-Resource gone lately, it might be some other player taking opportunity to become number One.

    But will the forum last for long.

    Time will tell,but from my view thing often get to move down-way with new owners.

    We just have to wait until the new owner is unvieled

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    doady
    Members 143 posts
    May 14, 2023, 7:36 a.m. May 14, 2023, 7:36 a.m.
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    @Ghundred has written:
    @xpatUSA has written:
    @Ghundred has written:

    What's the obsession with DPreview? Lots of you sound like jilted partners who have never gotten over their first boyfriend/girlfriend. What's with that?

    A bit confrontational that, I reckon. I spent a dozen years on their Sigma forum, longer than my first marriage.

    www.dpreview.com/forums/post/67033220

    Are you honestly saying that time spent talking lenses & technicalities on an interwebz forum is as important as that spent in a marriage/relationship?

    You are the one who made the comparison first. Somehow discussing DPR anonymously in a thread about DPR on a forum whose name and logo references DPR makes you think of "jilted partners who have never gotten over their first boyfriend/girlfriend".

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    Ghundred
    Members 761 posts
    May 14, 2023, 7:48 a.m. May 14, 2023, 7:48 a.m.
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    @doady has written:

    You are the one who made the comparison first

    I did nothing of the sort. Comprehension. Use it.

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    AlanSh
    Forum Admin 3257 posts
    May 14, 2023, 9:06 a.m. May 14, 2023, 9:06 a.m.
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    Let's be nice people. ("you started it" is what 8 year olds say when confronted by their parents).

    Alan

    maxdance, Robert1955 and jaberg like this.

    favorite 3

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    doady
    Members 143 posts
    May 14, 2023, 2:26 p.m. May 14, 2023, 2:26 p.m.
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    @Ghundred has written:
    @doady has written:

    You are the one who made the comparison first

    I did nothing of the sort. Comprehension. Use it.

    "Like jilted partners" is a comparison. You think you posted something very deep or complicated, but it is very clear what you were saying.

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    doady
    Members 143 posts
    May 14, 2023, 2:37 p.m. May 14, 2023, 2:37 p.m.
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    @AlanSh has written:

    Let's be nice people. ("you started it" is what 8 year olds say when confronted by their parents).

    Alan

    Just pointing out the facts. Ghundred is a hypocrite. Comparing me to 8 year olds is not exactly friendly either.

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