News January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports died

[Amiga]

@RMerlin
Any chance we might see you at https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/2-welcome-to-broadband-bulletin ? Tons of DSLR Canadians lurking about already.

 

[RMerlin]

@RMerlin
Any chance we might see you at https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/2-welcome-to-broadband-bulletin ? Tons of DSLR Canadians lurking about already.

The UI makes my eyes bleed... Both dark and light themes have poor contrast which is too difficult for me to read.

And... their webapge doesn't even disclose who is running this, what information they are gathering from their subscribed users...

 

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It seems the site's plug was pulled unannounced on DSLReports/BroadbandReports. Karl Bode is quoted as saying, "The owner has been completely checked out for years, I'm surprised it survived this long."

Sad to see them go... the forums had not only breadth, but also a fair amount of depth with technical folks from the carriers and vendors...

The DSLreports speedtest thing has been broken for some time - for A/B/C things, Waveform kind of does the same thing, but IMHO, Cloudflare is better...

Reddit will likely take most of the load, and perhaps Discord as well...

 

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The UI makes my eyes bleed... Both dark and light themes have poor contrast which is too difficult for me to read.

I'm color vision impaired, so yes, it's really bad...

 

[Amiga]

It's only been up for less than two days, so we need to give them time to tweak the user interface. The admin seems pretty genuine with trying to keep the DSLR community together.