Sorry, Dan,
I didn't read that message. I saw that it was working and wanted to alert
those PDMLers who were concerned in the past few days.
As for the rest, - it looks like PPG is not among Ricoh marketing
team priorities for Pentax brand. It looks more like a liability at this
point: they are afraid to cut it off completely (infuriating many
Pentaxians), but they also don't want to spend any resources for support
and moderation.
PPG was Asahi-Pentax's project that doesn't generate any direct revenue,
and it became an unloved step-child of Ricoh.
(I suspect that most if not all of the PPG team have been long gone or
moved to different roles.)
PPG was essentially a PR attempt for Pentax. I suspect, that it might not
have been very successful from the business' point of view. I don't know
if Asahi-Pentax or Ricoh had/has any measure of the popularity of that
website, and of how much exposure it gets, -- to judge if it is worth
their efforts. Also, I am not a marketing specialist, - so I don't know
how such things could be measured (if at all).
I have a thought that if Pentax or Ricoh had bought one of the popular
photo-hosting services (photo.net, flickr, ..) and used a portion of that
platform to develop a separate Pentax-branded community (such as PPG), -
they could've had a better chance for success and exposure.
But at the same time, that is a totally different area of business.
Obviously, Pentax wasn't prepared to diversify (too narrowly focused
company, with only a few product categories). Ricoh might be in a better
position, given the variety of products and services they provide.
Anyway,... Stay cool, be happy!
Igor
Daniel J. Matyola Wed, 23 May 2018 07:31:19 -0700 wrote:
It had been off for about 5 days.
As I indicated in my post yesterday, both Bong and I were able to log in
yesterday.
They are 7 months behind in approving submissions.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Dan and other have been worrying about PPG not being available.
While it wasn't responding just yesterday, - I just checked, - and it seems
to be working again.
HTH,
Igor
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