Digital Photography Review, a site that provides camera reviews and news will say goodbye to users in a couple weeks, a move that came as its entire editorial board got dismissed amid more than 9,000 employees’ layoffs.
The DPReview.com will stop its service on April 10, and the editorial team is still working on reviews and looking forward to delivering some of our best-ever content.
“Amazon hasn’t yet come up with an archival plan for it, but hopefully something can be sorted out before closure. To see something like DPReview completely disappear forever would be a goddamn shame,” Gannon Burgett, former site editor said on Twitter Tuesday.
It’s unclear what will happen to the site’s content afterward—the post promises only that the site’s articles “will be available in read-only mode for a limited period afterwards.” Any photos and text that readers have uploaded to their accounts can be requested and downloaded until April 6.
Amazon’s new round of layoffs will majorly impact cloud computing, advertising, and human resources sectors.
Cameras, even digital ones, tend to have a pretty long shelf life, and there’s an active used market for lenses and camera bodies—if DPReview.com goes offline entirely, that would be a huge blow to anyone trying to research older products, arstechnica reported.
DPReview, established in November 1998, is among the rare review sites that have been around for as long as Ars Technica. The website was acquired by Amazon in 2007, and the team has been based in Seattle, Amazon’s headquarters, since 2010.
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