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by AdamJacobMuller 1101 days ago
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!
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There is quite a deep connection between people like you or me not picking up their (D)SLRs in years and dpreview getting sold. The Moor has done his duty.
They not only cater to DSLR, high end compact cameras were also reviewed but your point still stand.

I still think there is still a niche market good enough for a website to strive. Photographers and lots of Vloggers still use high end cameras.

Yes, high end (and not so high end as also reviewed) compact cameras are even more irrelevant these days.
In part because manufacturers fail to identify niches underserved by phones. E.g. gopro-sized and gopro-robust, but unlike gopro/clones with stills as a core competency and not just as an afterthought (e.g. the entire stabilization approach of gopro-class devices does not apply at all to stills). I see a lot of people taking stills with a gopro in situations where they would consider their phone too bulky and/or too fragile. An RX100 will fit those situations no better than the phone.