[HN Gopher] Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
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Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
Author : avalexandrov
Score : 116 points
Date : 2023-06-20 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.dpreview.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.dpreview.com)
| antisthenes wrote:
| This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just
| another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of
| Y" articles.
|
| Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of
| product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
| notatoad wrote:
| Gearpatrol is the worst sort of website, because they do just
| enough of what could be called journalism to maintain a bit of
| integrity. Some of their reviews actually contain a critique!
|
| But for every one of those posts, there's ten where an
| advertiser clearly dictated the content.
| jacooper wrote:
| Thats was dpreview entire business model though?
| antisthenes wrote:
| Dpreview's reviews from their golden era are of vastly higher
| quality and depth than anything I've seen on Gear Patrol's
| website, which also stretches itself thin over multiple
| domains, not just DSLR photography.
|
| I have little hope that that quality or depth will be
| replicated in the future.
| rcmjr wrote:
| I actually enjoy Gear Patrol. I have had them in my rss feed
| for years. I understand what you are saying but they do keep me
| up to date on certain things.
| obmelvin wrote:
| I've come across a few Gear Patrol articles in my mobile chrome
| feed and I must agree - they aren't very helpful. It seems like
| they just want to add to their network with a quality domain
| name.
|
| > Will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol? > Our current core
| editorial, tech, and business team is moving forward with
| DPReview. Gear Patrol is committed to continuing DPReview's
| industry leading journalism, and we look forward to
| collaboratively investing in the site's future moving forward.
|
| As I read it, this is corporate-speak for 'no one from DPReview
| staff will join', so I'd expect it to become more bland content
| where you wonder if the writer actually used the products or
| just read the best buy product pages.
| AdamJacobMuller wrote:
| I think you read that backwards, move forward in this context
| means they will continue working with dpreview at it's new
| home.
|
| Are there changes coming? change is the only constant, but,
| it sounds like everyone who had a job yesterday at dpreview
| (a wholly owned division of amazon) will have one tomorrow at
| dpreview (a wholly owned division of gear patrol) .
| omoikane wrote:
| The question was "will _all_ DPReview staff join Gear
| Patrol ", and the answer said _core_ as opposed to just
| simply affirming _all_ , so perhaps not all staff get to
| keep their job.
| AdamJacobMuller wrote:
| I never heard of them before, but, their quality seems pretty
| good.
|
| https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a44258552/oral-history-big-g...
|
| That's a whole article with extensive
| interviews/content/context without (as far as I could find) a
| single affiliate link (not even a buy link?).
| notatoad wrote:
| But that whole piece is just a promotional item for the big
| green egg brand of barbecues. It's entirely complimentary and
| written to promote the brand. It's not journalism, it doesn't
| help anybody other than the people who sell those barbecues
| kwanbix wrote:
| I hope they can update their horrible forum software.
|
| I have been a user there for like 10 or 15 years, I don't recall,
| and the ui sucks.
| AdamJacobMuller wrote:
| That's great. Despite the fact that I had little to no use for
| dpreview anymore (I haven't picked up my SLR in 5-10 years), it
| made me very sad that dpreview was going away. Their reviews were
| exceedingly through and in-depth and could be trusted. Happy news
| for all of the dpreview team!
| pklausler wrote:
| This is a better outcome than losing DPReview entirely.
| mr3martinis wrote:
| Hopefully this means that they'll be able to maintain their
| thorough review format.
| mwambua wrote:
| I haven't used Gear Patrol much in the past. Are their reviews of
| the same quality as DPReview's?
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I wonder what happened behind the scenes at AMZN to make this
| possible.
| Washuu wrote:
| Amazon selling off companies they own is not very common. The
| last one that I know of that they sold off was Curse.(Sub-
| Subsidiary of Twitch) It was a huge effort by the director at
| the time to make it happen.
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