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Dorian Gray
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
 
2006-03-30, 14:03

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Originally Posted by ghoti
Depending on who you ask, photo.net has been going down the drain for the last two years
Yes, it's quite sad. The site used to be a masterpiece of minimalism and completely ad-free. It's now a messy commercial site which still absurdly clings to its minimalist roots. Real disaster if ever I saw one. Philip Greenspun, the well-known dot.com entrepreneur who created the site, wouldn't have known a good photograph if it smacked him in the teeth (bless him), but he certainly made a very good forum-based website. But it went downhill a while after he got rid of it (sold it?) when he retired (at 36-years-old I think!). I was one of the "elves" who selected the Photo of the Week a few years ago, but I've largely given up on photo.net now. Still, it's an order of magnitude better than gear sites like dpreview.com or The Luminous Landscape.
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