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WiderMouthOpen
Esteemed Contributor II
20 days ago
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RIP DSLReports.com

Just wanted to see if anyone has heard of anything official about DSLReports.com being shut down/broken. Right now it's giving a 504 error and been down for over 24 hours. As per here, looks like the...
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    WiderMouthOpen
    4 days ago

    FYI Seems the site is back up but you can only get to the home page and there is a message on top that says they will be read-only soon. So good news is we won't lose all that useful data. Bad news is we can't post there anymore so the site is still "dead".

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WiderMouthOpen
Esteemed Contributor II
17 days ago

I saw that on Reddit. For now, I am waiting to see which one of the replacements turns out to become the new standard. I have seen 3 possible places. The one you posted, reddit link I posted, or https://ho-lee-fooks.com/. The last one requires the site to accept your membership, but there was a referral link posted on Reddit. The problem is not only will the new site have a lot less viewers, but most of the DSLR users who are transitioning seem to be those that used DSLR for social reasons, not technical ones. Like I don't think the ISP employees and the people who actually helped answer questions and fix problems won't be switching to the new forum/platform. Not most of them anyway.