i get hospitalised for a week, and resurface to find it’s the end of the most meaningful experience of my life. Can’t we buy out the archive from Amazon? Persuade someone to take over on a subscription model? Heck, if I’m prepared to fork out for adobe, I’d certainly pay a sub to have ongoing DPR.distraught.Maggie

maggiemole wrote:i get hospitalised for a week, and resurface to find it’s the end of the most meaningful experience of my life. Can’t we buy out the archive from Amazon? Persuade someone to take over on a subscription model? Heck, if I’m prepared to fork out for adobe, I’d certainly pay a sub to have ongoing DPR.distraught.MaggieWe were away on holiday, and rather surprised to read this news!Look in the Forum for threads on the several alternatives.Peter

I was wondering about the folks who may have been away for some reason.  I'm sure there will be some people who come back to find DPR closed.DPRevived, created by DPR user bobn2, is quite popular:https://dprevived.com/In the post below I put out links to some other other ones that I've seen discussed.  Micro43 is also popular.https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66972136

rodriguezPhoto wrote:I was wondering about the folks who may have been away for some reason. I'm sure there will be some people who come back to find DPR closed.Not quite that bad for me - though I'd have happily gone away for a month, but was overruled...All the same, without the agility to reply on my mobile phone, felt like I'd been gagged!Peter

Hi,It's up tp the members to make it work but DPRevived is off to a good start with 1800 participants and counting:https://dprevived.com/André

maggiemole wrote:i get hospitalised for a week, and resurface to find it’s the end of the most meaningful experience of my life. Can’t we buy out the archive from Amazon? Persuade someone to take over on a subscription model? Heck, if I’m prepared to fork out for adobe, I’d certainly pay a sub to have ongoing DPR.distraught.MaggieThis would be a bad day to find out, you might assume it's an April Fool's joke.  Unfortunately it's not.