I’m going to have to set a time aside to save some content that I value over there.
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A lot of posts I know I made there were either deleted or somehow made unfindable, even by advanced Google searches.
ho response:
Hi all,
We need everyone’s help in writing to your local food writers about Hungry Onion as an alternative to Chowhound. Obviously many of us came from Chowhound and had great memories about our conversations on Chowhound. But good things come to an end unfortunately. And I’d like to invite as many folks over to continue the conversations here on HO.
If you recall the start of HO, we benefited immensely from outreach to the press during the 2015 turmoil and got a few valuable press mentions that brought a large influx of members to help us build up the community here. East Bay Express, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times. With that said, a small site such as hours with no marketing budget don’t really have great means to attract large number of new users in normal times. And we do need new members to compensate for loss of existing members over time.
That’s why we need your help in writing your local food writers now. Local newspaper, local Eater, etc. If you can let them know we at Hungry Onion have thriving discussions about dining and cooking, and would welcome any Chowhound users, that’d be much appreciated!!! Some of them may be writing articles this week about Chowhound’s closure so love to be mentioned as much as we can.
Also please invite anyone you know on Chowhound!!!
Is someone making a profit off that site? Seems weird to put so much effort into self-promotion.
ok this I’m curious about:
This will not be my touching final goodbye to The Chowhound Project. I’ve already offered that via a series of postings, written years ago; an epic and hilarious tale full of hindsight, juicy background on what actually went down, and deep affection for Chowhound’s users and gratitude for its fantastic moderators and supporters.
for future bathroom reading: Bubbles, Slogs, and Selling Out: Part 1
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I can see how Chowhound doesn’t fit Red Ventures’ business model the way Gamespot, Metacritic, TV Guide, and ZDNet (all of which they acquired in the same $500 million deal) do. Buying advice for video games, movies, computers, etc. is of interest to millions of consumers. Restaurants, except for chains, are by their nature of little interest outside of a relatively small local audience.
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Oh, how funny, I had the same thought.
I stopped reading after this:
a way for non-fanatics to query our chaotic resource cleanly and effortlessly. Find a great place to eat without delving into gigabytes of spidery, contentious discussion.
I’ll start reading it again, but, man, 2002 was def a different era. I’ve become so cynical about the human species over the past 6 yrs that I don’t think we deserve such a service. And I know that we’d ruin and destroy such a service, if it could ever even exist.
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I remember being banned from Chowhound. I was on eater . And maybe a couple other sites . Then i stumbled upon Discourse . I think there was ciaobob . Ipsey and three other people. It was like standing around in third grade with hands in pockets first day of school. Whats up. The rest is history.
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I honestly wasn’t a huge fan of his. I described it as he had a high opinion of his opinion.
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I’ve already started that with thew’s oven baked creamy polenta.
Banned? Only once??? Some of us called it “BFL.”
I just google Chowhound and my old screen name. Finding a lot there that I can copy and forward.
I was tractor banned . Large equipment. Removed for life
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BFL’d as I said. But I talked them out of it a couple of times 
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Oh, good, I thought it was just me after reading half of that that statement.
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I didn’t even read it. I’m talking years ago.
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No different than some posters here.
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I would like the tito’s salsa thread? some place they were trying to figure out the salsa recipe. Or was it king taco? I’d like that thread. also, the one I made about Julia Child and her cooking foods other than french cuisine and someone came in and dropped some jewels in there about her recipes that appeared in a magazine. There are probably other good threads, but I can’t remember.
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i wonder what melanie wong is going to do with all the new spare time she won’t be expending trying to keep the LA part of the CH board alive. without her posts, probably maybe one new post a month as far as i could tell.
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