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October Archived
1 November 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 10 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 12 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 152 items of interest) and 1 site note for a total of 53 stories.
Of those, 21 stories included 108 images. We published one holiday feature and five stories with gear specifications. Again, there were no obituaries. Or reviews as we continue to slowly recover from our most recent fall.
READERSHIP, again, has been obscured by bot attacks. And last month was the worse month ever. The numbers are astonishing.
For comparison, in September we served 15,828,255 pages rather than our normal 800,000. But last month, we surpassed 20,402,398 pages.
Unique sites, which usually are around 25,000 a month or more, were 3,167,576 in September and 2,813,253 in October -- after we doubled our IP address blocking with PHP code on the home pages.
The top graph shows what's going on. And it isn't just us. It's what the Web has become. Fortunately Sonic isn't charging us for this bandwidth or we'd have gone dark months ago. It's simply unsustainable.
Our double whammy with PHP code seems to have had an effect (which seems already to be dissipating):
Our bandwidth reports every day show us we're losing the war.
WE CONTINUE to publish six days a week. But we've noticed many other sites in this sector are only publishing once a week now.
That's too bad. We like the conversation.
Especially these days when you have something like Affinity by Canva launching as a free app with pixel, vector and layout tools, supported by in-app purchases of AI tools.
That's a different model.
But there are several current models. DxO continues to issue updates to its suite that rely on AI to attract interest. And Adobe continues its AI retooling on the subscription model.
Compare that to the camera market, which can't seem to think of anything. At all. If it weren't for phones, there'd be very little of interest going on but spec tweaking.
OUR TOP STORIES last month were Around The Horn columns broken up by coverage of of the Nikkor Z 16-50mm and 35mm lenses in fourth place. The second five were Horns until our Chris Bucher matinee in ninth.
More interesting, perhaps, was our third five, which started with our Tahoe Electron detector story, our Lost in Berkeley slide show and out Peter Turney matinee.
The bots didn't read those stories. Bots can't read. They just scrape. But you do read and you are who we are here for.