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I just noticed an other photography forum has closed down.

m.dpreview.com

DPReview.com to close

After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.
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That's the biggest forum on the Internet, and sadly they have closed it.
 
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It is very sad.
It was a big forum.
 
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panos_adgr said:
It is very sad.
It was a big forum.
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Seems a lot of forums are closing down. Probably because everyone is moving to social media sites and YouTube
 
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Jack said:
Seems a lot of forums are closing down. Probably because everyone is moving to social media sites and YouTube
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Yes. I think it is as you wrote Jack.
It is disappointing though. Not for the Dpreview but for the community.
People are mostly in social media. I see it also in me feeds of some teams I follow. The level though is very very low. People are trolling all the time and there isn't anything serious being written.
Only trolling and gear show of.
Forums are places where some kind of 'order' exists. People have to respect each other and stay on topic. In social platforms there is only trolling and sewer level discussions and debate most of the time.
There is also a great deal of depreciation of some youtube protagonists that is happening. It was about time for some of them.
People are struggling for their everyday life and they express their frustration regardless if it is done in right or wrong way.
 
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panos_adgr said:
Yes. I think it is as you wrote Jack.
It is disappointing though. Not for the Dpreview but for the community.
People are mostly in social media. I see it also in me feeds of some teams I follow. The level though is very very low. People are trolling all the time and there isn't anything serious being written.
Only trolling and gear show of.
Forums are places where some kind of 'order' exists. People have to respect each other and stay on topic. In social platforms there is only trolling and sewer level discussions and debate most of the time.
There is also a great deal of depreciation of some youtube protagonists that is happening. It was about time for some of them.
People are struggling for their everyday life and they express their frustration regardless if it is done in right or wrong way.
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Yes, I do agree about you here. Social media sites are there to server a topic, off topic discussions. When comes to more intelligent discussions, these are getting mixed with trolls, and at the end it's a bit of confusion.

In DPreview situation, is that it has been owned by amazon, and as they are a business, the main target for them is to make money, that's why they decided to close it down.

I think YouTube is a good source of some sort of information. I was thinking myself to creat a channel šŸ˜…. But will require a lot of effort.
 
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