DPReview is closing April 10th

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Little surprised that nobody else has posted about this but, for anyone that has used DPReview in the past or relied on it as a reference for photo or printing issues, you might want to be aware of this.

DPReview is being shut down by Amazon (the parent company) without a great deal of fanfare. Can't comment on the sense of it but I do know for myself it'll be a useful chunk of my internet reference library that I used to use, particularly for a number of legacy issues with printers. So if you're like me you may want to hoover up any regular references you've come to rely on before the shutters come down.
 

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Pretty sad really as it was a mine of information for photographers, especailly in the Forums. I guess Mr Bezos was not making enough from the Afilliate links to top up his Billionaire lifestyle :idunno
 

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Pretty sad really as it was a mine of information for photographers, especailly in the Forums. I guess Mr Bezos was not making enough from the Afilliate links to top up his Billionaire lifestyle :idunno
Aye... and what makes zero sense is why would a company that has literally gigatons of server capacity not just put the site out to seed as a static archive rather than delete the whole thing?! As one Youtuber put it recently, it's like burning the library of Alexandria. Pure myopic stupidity at worst, ignorance at best...

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why would a company that has literally gigatons of server capacity not just put the site out to seed as a static archive rather than delete the whole thing?
Have you never heard of cost saving, he didn’t get all his money giving charity..
These guys are all the Feckin same.. :smack
 

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Aye... and what makes zero sense is why would a company that has literally gigatons of server capacity not just put the site out to seed as a static archive rather than delete the whole thing?! As one Youtuber put it recently, it's like burning the library of Alexandria. Pure myopic stupidity at worst, ignorance at best...

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Indeed difficult to understand from a guy who started with a book shop.
 

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