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Andrew here: ending/transferring Cookbooker
I saw that too. I believe that since they take a small cut of the fees the amount there is what I’ll actually receive vs what’s been pledged. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed! I’m inspired to spend a little time and see if I can find out why the…

Comment by andrew November 2018 permalink
Andrew here: ending/transferring Cookbooker
$10 per month will cover hosting and domain registration indefinitely, so yes if 5 people pitch in $2 each that will do it. Several of you have already signed up and we're getting close. A couple more should do it!

Comment by andrew November 2018 permalink
Andrew here: ending/transferring Cookbooker
Thanks for commenting, everyone! I'm going to give Patreon a shot and see if it works out. I'm posting the link here and I'll also email regular site users separately in case some people don't use the forum. https://www.patreon…

Comment by andrew November 2018 permalink
Andrew here: ending/transferring Cookbooker
Thanks for responding. I'll see if anyone else chimes in over the next little while. I suppose one option if nobody wants to take on the hosting is that I could set up a Patreon for people to subscribe to; then it would keep the hosting account…

Comment by andrew November 2018 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
As @kateq said, I'm keeping it running still as it doesn't take much to do this, but can't really make any new features or do any major maintenance. And I'll look into the advertising. Thanks for noting it!

Comment by andrew January 2015 permalink
Searching my bookshelf
Better late than never - I fixed this. It was an old bit of code that snuck back in and interefered with the tabs. I'm also going to turn off new registrations now to stop spammers, at least until I can work out a better way of dealing with t…

Comment by andrew December 2014 permalink
Searching my bookshelf
Hi all. Sorry, but I'm not on the forums much and didn't see this discussion until someone emailed me. I'll have to look to see what went wrong. When I removed the links at the top of the pages to the old Articles section I probably d…

Comment by andrew September 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Just to update on Queezle's post, I've removed the articles and formal challenges, and put a link for members to the forum to point them to the new, informal challenges. So the site will be a bit more slimmed down. I'll move to a new …

Comment by andrew August 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Mastercook was a bit of a dead end. I didn't hear anything else from them after the initial communication (to be honest, I didn't have much time on my end to communicate with them in the first place, so it was partly my fault) and I got th…

Comment by andrew July 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Yes, it's something I'm planning. I'm going to move Cookbooker to a cheaper host so it won't be actually costing me any money to run. When I do this, I'll strip out the articles and the challenge pages so that there's n…

Comment by andrew July 2014 permalink
Missing "Cuisine Type" for Tunisia
Updated to Moroccan/Algerian/Tunisian! Sorry it took so long to see this. I am not on the forums too much - but an email to me (andrew - at - cookbooker com) will always work.

Comment by andrew May 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
I will definitely keep people in the loop about changes. There has been nothing here because nothing has officially happened yet. But I will post about future developments.

Comment by andrew March 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Hey everyone - this transition has not yet happened, so don't start getting worried yet. I have to make some hosting changes and I also want to talk to Mastercook in more detail before anything official. Right now I still run Coolbooker. My und…

Comment by andrew March 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Glad to have this news for people. Nothing has happened officially yet; we'll be deciding on the transition over the next little while. Meanwhile, I see we still have spammer issues sometimes cropping up, so I've decided to give a few of y…

Comment by andrew February 2014 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
One member has approached me, asking me to hold off a little while, while they investigate something regarding the site's future. Nothing will vanish for a while, in any case. I'll give lots of warning before anything changes. But yes, mak…

Comment by andrew December 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Thanks so much for checking into this, Beth. It's a big job, and I totally understand why he is not going to take it on. Especially since it is a volunteer thing. I won't be doing anything before the holidays, but in the new year I'…

Comment by andrew December 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Sorry, Beth - I didn't get it at all. I did get your recent one, so I'll reply to it directly. Sorry, I should have noted after a week or two, but I thought perhaps you'd been taken busy...

Comment by andrew November 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Unfortunately I have not heard anything since the last communication on this. @BethNH? It's a fairly significant amount of work to take this on, so if it's not going to be possible for someone to manage it, it may end up being worse than m…

Comment by andrew November 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
I'm totally willing to support whatever you suggest. @BethNH, let me know if you want to send an example of the code to your husband.

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Great to hear there's some interest and a potential programmer too! Here's a basic rundown of costs and technical info that would be required to keep Cookbooker going. Single point of contact: You'll need a single point of contact -…

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Hi @friederike: to create Cookbooker initially took a lot of work, but most of that was learning to program and creating features and solving problems. It runs (as it is now) with almost no input from me at this point. If you were to take it on, it …

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
The Future of Cookbooker
Thanks for the thoughts so far! @kate: a membership fee is a nice thought, but alas it won't help. My issue is not the cost of the site, but the time required to keep it running, which I simply don't have any longer. If it had somehow take…

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
Spreading the (cookbooker) word ...
I'm posting quickly here so say that I'm around today and reading the forums. I will start a new thread to discuss the future of Cookbooker and I'd be happy to get everyone's feedback there.

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
New challenge for September
I'm back. I'm sorry for my lack of participation on this. I'm just going to read all the threads I have not read in my absence and then I'll respond to the various questions and issues that have inevitably cropped up. The essenc…

Comment by andrew October 2013 permalink
New challenge for September
Yes, I'm popping in now. I have been an absentee landlord, as you've noticed. Thanks for the email Beth! I will change the challenge in the next couple of days, but it's approved, so you can go ahead and start doing it and I will figu…

Comment by andrew August 2013 permalink
Connecting book editions
I think you're showing that it's easy to miss, and not designed as well as it could be. So my fault, not yours! A button is a great idea.

Comment by andrew June 2013 permalink
Ebooks - Cookbooks?
I was going to suggest Tags also as an option. Also there's a private notes field in every review, which is a perfect place to say something only relevant to yourself.

Comment by andrew June 2013 permalink
Food adventures while traveling - advice?
Sounds wonderful. I second Clothilde's website as a good source of her insider tips on Paris - she also has her book on eating in the city: http://chocolateandzucchini.com/edibleadventures/ Any time I travel, I rely on websites like Chow.com (…

Comment by andrew June 2013 permalink
Errata
Fixed the title. Errata are an interesting idea. There is the 'chatter' tab on every recipe, which allows comments to be submitted. It isn't really used that much, so perhaps it could be changed to 'errata and substitutions'?

Comment by andrew June 2013 permalink
Connecting book editions
The connection system allows you to connect all editions of a cookbook, but it doesn't stop duplication of reviews. The reason is because recipes are sometimes tweaked from one edition of a cookbook to another, and I wanted to be sure that we c…

Comment by andrew June 2013 permalink

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