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BBC website recipes

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Brieandstilton · 17/05/2016 07:15

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!

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CatherineHMumsnet · 17/05/2016 10:02

On the upside - the 2800+ recipes we have here at Mumsnet aren't going anywhere. Promise.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/05/2016 12:37

@msrisotto

Catherine, can you steal the BBCs recipes and keep them here for us Grin Also, i'd like it if the reviews of each recipe on the mumsnet site could say how many people rated them. thx Grin

We will give it a go msrisotto! Am penning a letter to James Purnell (Head of Digital at the Beeb) as we speak. Will paste it up here in a min.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/05/2016 12:55

Dear James,

The announcement this morning that the BBC is to mothball its collection of 11,000 recipes following a review of its online output has triggered an outpouring of disappointment among the users of Mumsnet; here’s just one example of the discussions that have been started on the subject. We see we’re not the only ones: the story has made headlines across the media, and an online petition to save the recipes has closed in on 50,000 signatures in the few hours since the news broke.

Food is important to Mumsnet users, many of whom are responsible for feeding not just themselves, but their families. Our website already hosts its own bank of just under 3000 recipes, all of which were submitted by our users; in 2014, we published Top Bananas, a collection of some of the favourites. The recipes are an enormously popular part of our website, and we’re always on the lookout for ways in which to swell their numbers. Therefore, we’d like to offer to migrate the BBC’s recipes onto Mumsnet, where they can live alongside our own while retaining their BBC branding, and so continue to be accessed, for free, by the British public.

The BBC’s collection of recipes represents many years of thought, creativity and resource. For them to disappear forever would be a real loss; as is clear from the response to this morning’s announcement, many people rely on them on a daily basis. I hope, in the light of this, that you’ll give this serious consideration to this proposal. Do let me know what you think.

With best wishes,

Justine

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JustineMumsnet · 17/05/2016 16:49

@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)

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RowanMumsnet · 17/05/2016 17:25

Thread for URL/fave sharing here

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