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Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by phereford »

anonfunction wrote: post #10

I hear a lot of grief about companies shutting down. And I get it, if I spent a lot of time on Punchfork or Google Reader I would be bummed out. However I can still see the good that will come, yummly already jumped at creating an API replacement much like feedly promises to be an alternative for google reader. By the way, is ending your startup in "ly" the new fad in the technosphere?

Ending in .ly was really popular 2 years back (bit.ly, embed.ly, etc etc). It's still popular, but it has waned since .ly was publicly available.

I think the fad has since passed and a lot of people have been jumping on the .io bandwagon recently.

Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but Punchfork scraped their recipe content from other sites? Is it possible there is a data tainting issue here? Hard to reconcile Jeff's comments about user archive and the stuff on the web site, but that said I wasn't a user so I don't know if they sent an email with a download link or something.

Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by mikeflynn »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #12

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but Punchfork scraped their recipe content from other sites? Is it possible there is a data tainting issue here? Hard to reconcile Jeff's comments about user archive and the stuff on the web site, but that said I wasn't a user so I don't know if they sent an email with a download link or something.

I'm a registered user and they did not do any notification. I didn't even know it was shut down until seeing this link.

Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by rhizome »

morsch wrote: post #14

Has anybody ever succeeded in applying the distributed development approach (forking, pull requests, multiple branches and variations) to recipes?

I don't think recipes hew very well to that model. Revisions aren't as important as variations, which means each would be a branch, which is unwieldy.

Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by jedschmidt »

mikeflynn wrote: post #15
ChuckMcM wrote: post #12

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but Punchfork scraped their recipe content from other sites? Is it possible there is a data tainting issue here? Hard to reconcile Jeff's comments about user archive and the stuff on the web site, but that said I wasn't a user so I don't know if they sent an email with a download link or something.

I'm a registered user and they did not do any notification. I didn't even know it was shut down until seeing this link.

I (and all Punchfork users, I assume) received a notification on January 3rd, including the following:

    Initially, support for Punchfork will continue, but
    we will soon be retiring the Punchfork site, API and
    mobile apps. We believe that a unified destination
    benefits our users in the long run, and the Punchfork
    team (me) will focus on contributing to Pinterest as
    the premier platform for discovering and sharing new
    recipes and other interests on the web.
EDIT: Gmail binned this email in "Promotions"... I wonder if that explains why some didn't see it?

Re: Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes

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Post by ChuckMcM »

jedschmidt wrote: post #19
mikeflynn wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a registered user and they did not do any notification. I didn't even know it was shut down until seeing this link.

I (and all Punchfork users, I assume) received a notification on January 3rd, including the following: Initially, support for Punchfork will continue, but we will soon be retiring the Punchfork site, API and mobile apps. We believe that a unified destination benefits our users in the long run, and the Punchfork team (me) will focus on contributing to Pinterest as the premier platform for discovering and sharing new r…

Hmm, nothing about where you could download your data from?
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