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Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

#12

Cool! Looks fun. What exactly is open source on the site? Is it the recipes? If so, then what license do they use? Is there any disclaimer of that on submission? I'm not dissing, just making sure your ducks are in a row. It's a fun idea!

Recipes cannot be copyrighted.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

#14

Very nice! Most recipe websites these days are horrible (poor layout, annoying popups/popovers, crazy amounts of content that have little or nothing to do with the recipe....). The minimalism of this website is refreshing. I only wish the website itself was also open source. It would be pretty cool to be able to collaborate on and enhance the site (and a SCM hosting platform like GitHub or GitLab would provide a buil…

I have been thinking about how to solve this problem a lot lately. With the pandemic, I have been learning more recipes at home. I too share the frustration of browsing a recipe website and then getting a 7 paragraph story behind it. Just give me the recipe!

started uploading some personal recipes to https://benjaminclauss.github.io/minimalchef/ with Hugo (PR's welcome) but this definitely will not scale

I would definitely use a Strava for Cooking.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

#18

I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.

You may be in luck:

- https://www.cinc.kitchen/

- https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/based.cooking/ (which the submitted site may be derived from?)

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

#20

I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.

That sounds like something I’d use. Especially if it could convert between American and metric units.
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