Linking to data on other sites (including archive.org) seems like a better way to go, than pulling everything in (as you mentioned, storage reqs become a challenge fairly quickly)

but it's super slow and hard for the general public to access, and many JS features won't work.

One way is to summarize DPR member reviews with GPT4 and keep just the summary / score up.

Ultimately we want to make an awesome review tool on top of this data and start collecting original reviews.

This is a great effort! But yes, manual adding is slow, so the way is likely to crowdsource/automate it.

We're thinking gadgets, cars, music equipment would be a good start.

The best way to keep it safe going forward, is to have the community own it, so we open sourced it: https://github.com/open-product-data/digital-cameras

I'm aware of a number of attempts to make product data open-sourced, but none have the power of the photo geeks behind it :)

Thoughts or ideas? + really looking for some contribution love.

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There should be plenty community interest and enthusiasts to keep the good thing going.

The 2 things we need to save are: 1. content (archiving is being worked on) 2. community (there needs to be a concentrated effort to bring everyone to a new place)

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Obviously there's much more content than user data.. but i'm sure we can keep it alive too