BBC website recipes

[Brieandstilton]

Morning,

Anybody else going to have to screen shot a lot of recipes before the BBC takes them off their website? I'd better get started!

One thing I'm a little unsure of though, does it include the BBC Goof Food website? I'm not sure it does, but if it does, I'll be staying up all night to save them!

I have this ragu in the oven as I type

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/anauthenticragubolog_66229

Yes, c'mon BBC, this is why we pay our license fee!

Can't believe this! And on National Vegetarian Week as well... What will I do without their In Season monthly guide :( Have signed the petition but in likely event of that not working, I do like the idea of Mumsnet hosting the recipes

Had a moment of panic, but have checked and all my pinned recipes are from the BBC Good Food site. Phew!

Can I just remind everyone that 6Music didn't close........

I feel this is a way of boosting BBC support.........

However if they are here on MN then brilliant. I suspect that offer might have just sent them into apoplectic shock though

ZERO recipes are disappearing, this is just BBC political maneuvering/lies because they are having their budget cut and they want to piss people off.

Every single recipe that is on their website is staying there, where it will be fully accessible. They claim "The archived recipes won't be linked or optimised so will be hard to find online. " But this a load of fucking bollocks, Google is more than capable of indexing their website, and the recipes will continue to be prominent.

It is only NEW recipes (i.e. those that don't exist yet) that will be accessible only for 30 days before being deleted. It is not clear why they need to be deleted after 30 days, but I would assume this is more political maneuvering to annoy people and blame it on cuts.

Dishonest, lying fucks.

mamamea said it better than me!

Besides there will be food bloggers out there that repeat the recipes on their blogs all the time. They might be harder to find but they won't be impossible.

More people talking about this on other thread [[www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2634287-BBC-cuts-mean-BBC-Foods-11-000-recipes-might-disappear?pg=2]], fyi ...

Err, not sure what happened there. Trying again. THIS other thread...

If the BBC wants to save money perhaps they could stop doing things for the Government, returning the world service to be run by the government perhaps, or closing BBC Parliament channel, deny the politicians their publicity.

I use Evernote to save recipes I like or like the look of. It's free and pretty good. And it doesn't matter if the original website goes poof - I still have it.

Great idea to migrate all the BBC recipes over to MN though :)

All may not be lost. BBC Press Office Twitter is saying that if you know a URL for a recipe, you'll still be able to see it. Assume that means that any you save you'll still be able to get to, you just won't be able to search. That's how I'm reading it anyway.

90% + of people go to BBC recipes via Google Search. It's being removed from Google search. Virtually no-one will use the archived pages because they are going from Google.

@Brieandstilton

All may not be lost. BBC Press Office Twitter is saying that if you know a URL for a recipe, you'll still be able to see it. Assume that means that any you save you'll still be able to get to, you just won't be able to search. That's how I'm reading it anyway.

Shall we start a thread for people to post their favourite urls - so it's there for posterity? (and nice way to share faves too)

Could be a good idea Justine. I've got a few I've tried and love. And plenty more I've not tried yet.

BBC Local News websites are going
BBC radio websites are mostly going too.
BBC iWonder is going (terrible, its hugely educational)

Petition has been raised to discuss this and the other changes in Parliament. It needs 100,000 signatures to force a vote. Otherwise this and the other changes are going through without a vote.

Link to the above Petition to Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130632

I might have actually remember how to boil an egg

Thread for URL/fave sharing here

Thanks
MNHQ

According to radio 4 just now, the BBC have done a U turn of sorts- the old receipes will be moved over to BBC Good Food apparently (which is a commercial website). However the BBC website still says only some of the recipes, so I am not sure.

Thanks for your letter Justine, which also made it to the BBC news website! I wonder if that influenced their decision...

Oh and the whole point of this was that other commercial rivals didn't want people getting receipes for free and wanted people to have to look at their websites with adverts instead. What will happen instead is that the recipes and viewers will be instead looking at BBC Good Food website, which is commercial and has its own adverts. The other commercial website have done themselves a disfavour because advertisers now have a lucrative place to go as well- BBC Good Food.

how does it save money?

It doesn't. It isn't about a in money. It's about commercial rivals not being able to make money because people were getting their receipes off the BBC for free.

Although it could be argued that it's not free, most of us have paid for these receipes by paying the licence fee.

*it isn't about making money

Sorry, mess that up again.

It isn't about saving money, it's about rivals making money

*messed!

I give up!