The truth is - it's very expensive to provide the kind of continually growing quality content - fora, articles, reviews, etc. - that attracts visitors to a site just on subscriptions alone, and visitors have been trained to expect that this content will cost them nothing. Thus, sites like this exist on advertising, or the subsidy of a parent organization employing it as a mode of advertising. With an 85% drop in market size since its 2012 peak, and hardware long past good enough for almost all users, it's mostly subsidy that keeps sites like this alive.Interesting...that's what I was looking for, a number. It does seem that a subscription, additional Amazon sales, a little advertising could save the site. Someone smarter than me would have to figure that out. Maybe they already did and that is why they are shutting it downRecently the cost to run DPR was estimated at about $3 to $3.5M per year. So about $250-300K per month. At about 4M page views/year, that's 1 to 1.3 cents per view. Assume that 25% of visitors are regulars and would pay for access. For dedicated users, that's about 40-55 cents per day assuming 10 pages viewed per visit (the average is closer to 3). Double that to give AMZ a good profit margin.Amazon...rather than shut it down, tell us how much per month to keep it up and see how many sign up before April 10th. Maybe this is a money maker for you, Just a thought
Jack
Is DPR worth a $15-17/month subscription per year to you? Remember how outraged users were at Adobe's $10/month for a LR/PS subscription.
Jack
Anyone who's tried to keep a site "live" solo knows how hard it is.
