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I can't believe I'm kinda going to sorta defend Amazon, but... Amazon kept the site running for 16 years after the acquisition (and 13 years after the founder l
by gkoberger 4y ago
I can't believe I'm kinda going to sorta defend Amazon, but... Amazon kept the site running for 16 years after the acquisition (and 13 years after the founder left)? That's genuinely amazing.
They could have garnered a lot of goodwill by finding a new home for it, but at the same time, Amazon keeping it running for 16 years is really impressive to me. That's a really good run.
Hopefully all these responses make them consider putting in the effort to preserving it.
- antisthenes 4y agoThey didn't have to "develop" it actively or even write content for it. Just keep hosting it on 0.00000001% of their cloud infrastructure. DPReview is a mostly static site, images, html & simple JS.
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- anigbrowl 4y agoThey could have garnered a lot of goodwill by finding a new home for it They could have made money by simply putting it up for auction or offering to sell to the user community. I don't feel so emotionally attached to DPreview as I haven't visited the site in years, but I'm offended that the logic of capital dictates the 'best' option here is to literally destroy something that has value for a lot of people. I presume some aspiring financial warrior is now able to burnish the 'terminator' badge on their resume.
- steveBK123 4y agoIt's sad to see Dpreview go the same way as Photo.net