Will you stay if DPReview doesn't close?

Exactly. I did pretty much the same since I asked them to delete my account but never happen.

The lack of clarification regarding their status is BS. I remember a reply Richard Butler post on a forum when someone ask about when or "if" DPR was finally going to disappear, and he replied with a "time will tell".

I hope to stay here if this site works out.
I think DPreview will either be taken over by someone else - bought I mean - and then continue. Or it will become a readonly archive of some sort.

while i mostly agree with Jack, there is one thing: dpreview now feels rather stale. Nothing much seemed to change, just coasting along. And the reviews went down in quantity and quality in the last year. Not sure these downward trends could be reversed

As Ricoh GR user, I'll head to the more active forum. Currently this one is pretty slow.
Granted I haven't posted much, so I have few posts in mind and I'll see how active it gets.

I like it here. Both you and Bob seem to be good fellows, and Bob just seems to "get" it. If that doesn't change, everything else will be fine.

I really could have walked away from DPReview as there was always a constant threat of posts being pulled, ban warnings and the like. When I started there in January 2012 I think I had a D300 and D300s, moving or adding at some point a D700, then first of April 2012 picking up a D800. Added a D800e at some point, and eventually moved to a D810 on the day they were released. D810 pretty much moved the FX DSLRs pass issues, so there wasn't a lot to discuss that I needed to discuss. D800 had inconsistent focus issues, so there were always discussions on that. Df added a bit of fun in the threads, real world against the hipsters. :) :)

I tried FM, but got a couple of heads up PM that confirmed what I saw going on. The Group of Five (maybe 6 or 7) controlled most of the dialogue in the Nikon threads when it was something they didn't agree with, one would reply and the others would pile on. I was warned to watch out for it, and given a list of the fellows involved, most of whom I had figured out. Have a screen shot somewhere. After awhile I just decided I didn't need the bs, PM'ed a member on DPReview that I was going to make sure I got banned, and said something to someone. I could have went back under another username, I placed no value on keeping the same one, but just a bs site when you get into it, so had no interest. I wouldn't go back there if it were the last photography site on the internet.

So to continue making a short answer long, I'll hang out here. 12 years on DPReview may have been enough of camera forums, so many of the good guys, so many of the BIF shooters had left. But for now........................

I voted Stay Here - I prefer interacting here. DPR was too silo-centric, too gear-centric for me to spend much time there. If it somehow remains active I would still do research there before making a purchase or if trying to solve a technical problem. Anything else I did on DPR was in one of the small rabbit warrens where non-silo photocentric activities and discussions took place. DPRev offers more balance between gearcentric and photography-centric posts, and some threads offer an interesting mixture of both.

Of course like many others, I mourn the lack of threaded view, which allows for a more conversational approach than does flat view. I still hold out hope you guys will figure out a way to implement it. You seem very resourceful.

I’m never going back.

You have created a wonderful new home for photography and all of its many avenues. I have met some really nice and interesting people here inside the last month, and the (threads page) format has led me to subforms and discussions / photos that I would never have seen at dpreview.

The King is dead - - Long live the King.

Yes DPR got very stale after the rule changes and the crackdown on people who they considered troublemakers or just had opinions that di not go with the flow.

I was commenting less and less, just a weekly photo thread,with a good bunch of people and which was the only thing that kept me there.

Yeah, that place didn't work for me either.

The thing about DPreview was that it attracted a lot of technically minded people, especially in the Nikon forums - maybe because when DPreview started Nikon D1 was new. I get the impression many of those technically minded people are here. If this site can carve out its own niche in that space, it may well become the place for that group.

If DPreview decides to carry on either under Amazon or under a new owner, it will be hard to compete with it for volume.

Prior to their announcement, DPR was the only photo discussion website I used. I joined in 2004. But for some time prior to last summer, I'd 'dropped out' as I wasn't active in photography. Since the DPR announcement, I'd read and registered in several other sites as well as this one and will continue to follow several sites. What's a shame for the limited pool of Sigma camera commentators is that we've been so scattered.

They should give you the code for the forums! Then we would have the threaded view they have had since at least 2002.

This is a new forum. All of the people that I did interact with on DPR have not come here. I miss them. The lack of a threaded view is a major short coming. I don't know if you have coding experts that are willing and able to put in the time to reinvent something that already existed. Amazon is not using it, so I will repeat, they should just give you the code! The interface there for images and editing is much cleaner than here where a bunch of code appears. The code is a mystery to some that do not know how to do what they did so easily on DPR. Some of those people have told me they are out until a threaded view comes into being. I suspect that the demise of DPR will have a lot of people just abandoning things they did there and encourage them to find other outlets for their time.

You are doing a good job here and I commend you for what you have managed to get done!!! I am not sure how you manage to have a life outside what you are doing here because you have been very active Allan.

Andrew

That's so unlikely IMO that I won't even formulate a guess about how I'd react.

DPReview's reputation is already in the toilet due to the way Amazon's management has acted. It's hard to imagine anyone on the website's staff sinking low enough to continue working for them longer than necessary.

I doubt the DPreview code will help. If I remember it right and if its still the tech they had, the forums ran on SQL Server. That's pretty expensive I imagine.

I do my own Statement here:

This is MY FORUM.
As a "Photographer" I'm entitled to own it.
Nobody will ever be able to give me this freedom outside it.

I name the rules. I decide on ethics. I'm part of it.

OVOHP

( One Vote One Human Photografer )

This forum has more interesting everyday traffic, but DPR has decades of information.If given the option I'll continue to use both (as well as multiple other forums). I expect I'll post here at least 10 times more than on DPR.