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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

By the way:
They do that for 3 reasons: Keeping you on the site longer, which increases its rating with Google.
Adding more space for ads.
And preventing others from simply scraping and reposting the entire content on their site, since recipes by themselves can't be copyrighted, but written stories can.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True.

Although in Tolkien's case, I think no one bothered to tell him that writers like Dickens were paid per-word for what they wrote and he just figured he'd do what everyone he grew up reading did.

[–] jballs 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

writers like Dickens were paid per-word

Is that true? That explains Great Expectations. I had to read that in high school and it just went on and oooooon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to UC Santa Cruz, Dickens was not paid per word, but by installment. The novels were released in monthly installments, which culminated in a full novel. They do not mention Great Expectations specifically, but do say he would release a novel over 20 issues, costing 1 shilling per issue, making it easier for normal people to buy his novels since a full book cost around 31 shillings at the time and the common man only had to save one shilling a month instead of 31 in one go.

[–] jballs 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I pity the poor bastard who had to pay a monthly subscription fee to read that book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Upon further research, get expectations was released weekly in his periodical over 9 months.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually use my recipe blog to store passwords and credit card information. I've never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does that work?

Now stir in the sour cream - "56&fHR+6AakOUH5&#3FJ" brand works best?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You crazy?! Not in the instructions. In the narrative portion. Where I talk about my hike through the Yukon, where I meditated and during that time, hunter2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

On the google note

It’s because Google prioritizes unique content and prioritizes the beginning of a web page more than the end

If they put the recipe at the top it would be flagged as duplicate content

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Luke Smith's based.cooking aims to solve exactly that.
Might be missing a bunch of things but it's always worth at least checking out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And of course it's using units from Middle Earth instead or metric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Bookmarked. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I only recently discovered two things.

  • Most recipe blogs have a Jump to Recipe button at the top.

  • The selfhostable mealie has a feature that lets you import recipes from most blogs with a simple Import from URL option.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But where are the actual recipes?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Instructions unclear; how do I "scroll" a hardback paper book?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's Sam's ye olde family recipes book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Recipes blog. If it was a cookbook, you wouldn't have to get through 20 pages before you got to the recipe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

scrolls straight to the bottom

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That doesn't work anymore either, because they add a bunch of shit after the recipe now too.

And, even worse, they often put important details about the recipe in the middle of their screed rather than with the recipe itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, honestly, most blogs have a "skip to recipe" button. By now basically everyone knows why they do it (to keep their work from being ripped off), so I really don't mind the mild inconvenience of clicking an extra button. They're taking the time to share their expertise with the rest of us, I'm fine if they make sure they get credit for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

to keep their work from being ripped off

I don’t see how this could possibly work. My recipe manager can extract the recipe from those pages faster than I can cluck that button

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This explains Redwall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact that you are expecting people to watch a 17-minute video to learn why you should spend about the same time reading someone's personal journey to the recipe you want to get to suggest you don't really understand the issue. Nor does the person who made that video.

The other day, about an hour before it was time to cook my daughter dinner, I realized the steak I bought her was a cut of steak I'd never cooked before (I don't even eat meat), so I tried to find information about the best way to cook it. And it took half of that hour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not just explain why instead of expecting people to watch some long video? Surely the reason can't be that complicated.