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While it’s heartening to see the preservation community step up like this, I’m still left wondering what Amazon’s alternatives might have been. Granted, finding

While it’s heartening to see the preservation community step up like this, I’m still left wondering what Amazon’s alternatives might have been. Granted, finding a buyer would have likely been extremely tough in today’s media landscape, and I have to imagine the site was losing money in recent years, yet I can’t help but imagine some kind of leaner version of it sticking around. Maybe some of the long-time editors and contributors will still put something together. The hard part might actually be the site itself – something like Substack would be a poor fit compared to the highly-customized, product-centric architecture of DPReview.

capableweb 4y ago
Cost of running a website like that is essentially everything but the actual infrastructure of keeping the HTML and data going across the wire. Since Amazon also runs AWS, they can essentially run the website for free (as they surely don't pay for traffic like the normal cloud-pleebs do). Stop updating the website but still leaving it online would have cost them a minimal amount of money but left them with infinitive amount of goodwill in the community compared to what they ended up doing.