News January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports died

[Amiga]

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."

DSLR refugees appear to be migrating to the Ho-Lee-Fooks website (https://ho-lee-fooks.com), but it is missing a ton of tech forums. News and rumors can be found via https://www.reddit.com/r/dslreports/ .

 

[thiggins]

Do you know where any of the tools have gone or where there are replacements?

 

[Analog-1]

Yes noticed it was not working yesterday. To bad at one time it was a great forum.

 

[ATLga]

Do you know where any of the tools have gone or where there are replacements?

Was on there for 25 years. Gonna miss it. It's long been a habit to check the site a couple of times a day and catch-up on things.
Most of the tools had quit working a long time ago. Justin, the site owner hasn't been seen or heard from in years. His username was actually not logged into for so long that it became available for someone to use. I used to talk with him, I think the last time was when he was creating the speed test and he asked me to help him with some testing he was doing. I've heard from some other long time users that the mods aren't answering emails anymore and all the domain stuff had the contact info changed so there's nothing listed that's valid. Looks like it's gone for good this time and it's a shame, it was one of the last old school websites.