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 12/25/2008 09:39:18 PM · #1
FYI - something to check out...

DPReview Challenge Announcement

Labs beta: As part of our ten years celebration we've been working hard to bring you a beta of our next big site feature; Challenges. Anyone who has been on the dpreview forums will be more than aware of the popularity of photographic challenges. Until now these have been created primarily by a single challenge host creating a new thread in the forums to promote their challenge idea and others following up with entries. We decided to take this concept and develop a fully integrated challenge system for dpreview which will allow series of challenges to run, with a flexible range of rule sets, voting options and winner concepts. The public beta of our Challenges system will begin this coming Monday 29th December with the opening of five initial challenges created by ourselves which any registered dpreview member can enter. After this we'll be looking for challenge hosts to continue the next phase of the beta. (11:35 GMT)
12/25/2008 11:11:20 PM · #2
Awesome, I have been wondering when they would be doing this. Should be interesting.
 12/26/2008 12:21:03 AM · #3
wonder how many DPC images we'll see 'borrowed' over there.
 12/26/2008 01:00:47 AM · #4
I've heard of this concept somewhere... but I can't quit put my finger on where.

;D

Mike
 12/26/2008 03:41:39 AM · #5
Hopefully with some high-profile competition DPchallenge might be forced to look at changing some of its rulesets.. Looks interesting, but never be anything like good old DPC.
 12/26/2008 04:22:15 AM · #6
Originally posted by Simms:
... never be anything like good old DPC.


It's not as funny as it used to be. Hang on, that's Viz.
 12/26/2008 08:36:22 AM · #7
Originally posted by Mr_Pants:
Originally posted by Simms:
... never be anything like good old DPC.


It's not as funny as it used to be. Hang on, that's Viz.


True though.. Viz in the late 80s/early 90s was at its best. Around the time of Madchester etc.. good call.

Anyway, have a good xmas?

Message edited by author 2008-12-26 08:36:33.
 12/26/2008 10:07:37 AM · #8
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.
 12/28/2008 12:24:21 PM · #9
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.


I can't even figure out how to register. I don't see anything that shows how to do it.
 12/28/2008 12:38:43 PM · #10
Originally posted by bmartuch:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.


I can't even figure out how to register. I don't see anything that shows how to do it.


//www.dpreview.com/forums/register.asp?name=&email=&problems=Your+name+is+required|

R.
 12/28/2008 12:49:13 PM · #11
DPReview has always been mainly about gear, secondarily about the mechanics of photography, and way down the list about art. While it's always nice to see more options, I don't expect the average quality to be as high as here.
 12/28/2008 01:13:46 PM · #12
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.


Yeah, this pissed me off to no end! I was going to register over there for forum participation a couple years back and was astonished at this hurdle.
 12/28/2008 01:29:57 PM · #13
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.


Yeah, this pissed me off to no end! I was going to register over there for forum participation a couple years back and was astonished at this hurdle.


A lot of "serious" sites do this; the idea is that there will be fewer multiple accounts and fewer spammers if you eliminate the free mail servers. I think it's snobbery, myself...

R.
 12/28/2008 01:36:56 PM · #14
Cool. I just remembered how to log into my ISP mail ^_^

Hiya Bear!
 12/28/2008 01:37:42 PM · #15
Originally posted by wavelength:
Cool. I just remembered how to log into my ISP mail ^_^

Hiya Bear!


Hiya Steve!

R.
 12/28/2008 02:00:44 PM · #16
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.


Yeah, this pissed me off to no end! I was going to register over there for forum participation a couple years back and was astonished at this hurdle.


A lot of "serious" sites do this; the idea is that there will be fewer multiple accounts and fewer spammers if you eliminate the free mail servers. I think it's snobbery, myself...

R.


Yeah, I know WHY they do it, I just don't agree with it. Peruse their forums and the same inane things occur as any other forum, ISP accounts or not, so really one can't argue that ISP users are "more serious" or "less immature." I think it's an ineffectual fix to a universal problem.
 12/28/2008 03:06:20 PM · #17
Well, I'm in now. I had a vague memory of a Comcast-provided email account from when I signed up years ago. So I got into live chat with a Comcast rep and activated it, easy-peasy :-) Not that I'm gonna USE it for anything, but there it is when I need it :-)

R.
 12/28/2008 04:59:18 PM · #18
Just seen this post - I could of sorted you out with a " robert@eyecandyphotographic.com" address if I had known. :(
 12/28/2008 05:15:57 PM · #19
Originally posted by Simms:
Just seen this post - I could of sorted you out with a " robert@eyecandyphotographic.com" address if I had known. :(


I didn't realize you owned the redirect for DPC... ;-)

R.
 12/28/2008 07:58:39 PM · #20
Geez, this thread has turned into a complaint about DPReview registration policies! For less than $10 a year there is at least one place you can go to (godaddy.com) and get your own domain name with email (Web and/or POP). So it's not like it's some insurmountable or even expensive problem.

12/28/2008 08:12:56 PM · #21
Originally posted by talmy:
Geez, this thread has turned into a complaint about DPReview registration policies! For less than $10 a year there is at least one place you can go to (godaddy.com) and get your own domain name with email (Web and/or POP). So it's not like it's some insurmountable or even expensive problem.


Hey, we surmounted it didn't we? And now folks planning to join up are forewarned. It's a public service, don'tya know? :-)

R.
 12/29/2008 09:54:24 AM · #22
It's up now! Most interesting features -- no size limitations and you can see the entries before the voting period starts. Also each challenge has it's own, simple set of rules. At moment only similarity to DPC is the one week to enter, one week to vote. Certainly worth a look.
 12/29/2008 10:10:04 AM · #23
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Well, it won't even let me REGISTER for the site since I have only web-based e-mail... guess they'll have to get along without me.

R.

Not being able to use my Gmail account, which I have been using for all my email for years is very annoying. Now I have to try remember the login details for my ISP account :P

Does anyone know if the challenges have the seem limit of data as DPC (ie, photo needs to be taken in week of challenge), or can I enter anything on my hard-drive that meets the other rules?
 12/29/2008 10:15:28 AM · #24
It's nice to see them integrate the challenge into the forums. It looks pretty cool. Though I don't see it as a replacement for DPC. The main concept seems to be taken from the challenges running on their forums by regular folk and volunteers...
You can see pics before voting, comment on them, swap pics, enter 3 pics per challenge, winner picks new topic, etc. but doubt it will feel as friendly. We'll see.

//www.pbase.com/cslrchallenge
//www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge
//www.pbase.com/stfchallenge

Message edited by author 2008-12-29 10:18:16.
 12/29/2008 12:29:14 PM · #25
dgrin beens doing the same sort of thing forever.


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