It’s in its infancy (heck, I suppose FTC is too) - Instead of diluting the audience in the future, we should offer an olive branch and see if we can join forces and retain as many former CH voices as possible.
I had the same thought – I don’t think there was any ill-intent on having the two boards-- just a parallel evolution.
Since they’re both on the Discourse format, I’m wondering if it might even be possible to merge – I’m noticing some of us have landed there, some have landed here, and quite a few are dabbling on both.
With all of us working together, it can only make for a stronger COMMUNITY.
I’m very not familiar with any of the East Coasters. I was hoping someone here who posts bi-coastally can reach out and make first contact. @ipsedixit ???
@robert it might make sense for you to contact the administrator at Hungry Onion regarding consolidation.
If you look at their posts, there have already been requests to consolidate the two boards.
The question I think, at this point, is how.
As the two of you - robert and Hungry Onion - are the owners of the respective boards I think it makes the most sense for the two of you to discuss the approach.
I think it would be great if both sites could be combined/consolidated somehow. I am currently signed up on both, but with the WFD group I host on Fb, it’s getting a bit much to keep up on so many parallel things…
Do you really want to have WFD on both FB and here? I know you can’t consolidate but could you or would you be interested in just posting that you’re closing that one down and having it be here?
I’m not going to post on both and I’m guessing others won’t either. So having them both just dilutes both. In addition Food Talk Central would be more likely to show up on a random search than Hungry Onion. Just sayin’.
I am on both. I also finally joined egulllet since many ex-Chowhounders are posting there too. I do hope that talkcentral and the onion will join forces.
Not at this point, no. Several members have voiced their concern about the fb group being closed down or moved. As long as these two sites haven’t consolidated, we’re keeping the fb group.
I have lurked at egullet for a long time but never saw much trafffic in regional boards that I am interested. I thought that the great exodus from Chowhound might result in more which is why I decided to join. I will miss the France ans Italy bored on CH should it continue its decline. There are some great posters there. I do not suspect that European Chowhounds are likely to enjoy this or the Hungry Onion. I hope I am really wrong on this.
I emailed ckshen saying that some users suggested a merger, but he has some ideas about a not-for-profit structure, which to me seems like a lot of extra time, expense, and paperwork. He also said something about public domain, but I wouldn’t have anything to do with a site that wanted me to turn over my copyrights (maybe that’s not what he meant). Whicih reminds me, I need to update the terms of service.
My feeling is that there’s no significant profit to be made, so the less overhead and complication the better. It’s not very time-consuming, I put the site together and have been running it on my coffee breaks. It’s cheap to operate and in the long run maybe the Google ads will make it pay for itself.