JPG Magazine To Become Birdcage Liner

F-You, JPG!

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I don't know if you you guy's are a fan of jpg magazine,- easily one of the greatest magazines out there. But something really shitty is going on over at 8020 publishing as evidence by a post by JPG co-founder Derek Powazek's blog post.

In one evening, Paul removed issues 1-6 from the JPG website, removed Heather from the About page, and deleted the “Letter from the Editors” that had lived on the site since day one. Paul informed me that we were inventing a new story about how JPG came to be that was all about 8020. He told me not to speak of that walk in Buena Vista, my wife, or anything that came before 8020.

I felt so bad about what happened to Derek and to the users of both the site and readers of the magazine that I canceled my subscription. I'm not the only one either, If you refresh the photos section of the site every so often the image submissions are dropping pretty fast.

If you have a JPG account account and would also like to delete your account go to "edit profile" and you can cancel from there.

Let me know what you think!

UPDATE: 8020 has posted an Update to a a posting that discussed the departure of Derek. From the site:

Update: There have been a lot of questions from the community today about us rewriting history and we think it is important to say that we have no intention of rewriting the history of JPG Magazine. When 8020 was created we felt a photography magazine was a perfect first title to start with. JPG Magazine existed before and was absolutely the inspiration for the new JPG magazine. Derek and the contributors behind the early issues are a critical part of who we are and the heritage of JPG magazine is not something to be erased or forgotten. The JPG magazine that Derek and Heather created will always be an inspiration to us and we are committed to the principles that they set out.

Well, I guess that's that then. I personally think it's a nothing but corporate gibberish, but what else can you expect from a corporation? Especially one that's been accused of betraying it's employees and extremely devoted customers/users.

You can read the 8020's post here.