DPReview.com is shutting down on April 10th.

G’damn. This is one of maybe three to five websites that I visit every day. It’s well known for its in-depth reviews, but was also one of the few sites out there that hadn’t degenerated into the labyrinth of clickbait and dark patterns that is the modern web. If I wanted to see which lenses Canon’s released this year or last, DPreview is the only place I’d think about getting that information, far more usable than even Canon’s official site.

I’d forgotten that Amazon had bought them – a shame. An underperforming division of the trillion-dollar everything-store company might be a reasonably sustainable independent business on its own terms.