Delete recipes

EmilyC added 11 months ago

Hi B, I'm not sure how to delete you own recipes, but you can delete those you've saved by clicking on the "I saved this recipe" button on the left side of the page. Doing so removes the recipe from your file. Hope this helps.

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added 11 months ago

Thank you so much, Em. I can't imagine how you figured that out. It's not exactly intuitive, and it's definitely cumbersome. Still, I'll work my way through the list. Now if only I could delete some of mine.

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added 11 months ago

I'm responding to this so I get notifications of the answer. I'd like to delete some of mine, too.

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EmilyC added 11 months ago

Ha, I figured it out through pure accident! I'd be interested to know how to delete one's own recipes, too. I have a few I could definitely live without!

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susan g added 11 months ago

This has come up in the past, and 'editors' said they will do it for you.

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While Peter no longer works for Food52 he still thinks up ways to make the website better.

added 11 months ago

Hi all, Susan is correct that for now, just email in to editors@food52.com with links to any recipes you want removed and we can do it for you (unless it was a contest winner of finalist or community pick).

Why don't we allow you to delete your own recipes? Sadly, it's a matter of priorities. Whle we'd like Food52 to be the best food website anyone has ever laid eyes on, we're a tiny site with a very limited staff and an ever more limited technical staff.

That technical staff has a list of work long enough to keep the team busy into 2013 so we tend to focus on the projects that benefit the most people. Since it's already a subset of community members who add recipes... and a much, much smaller subset that wants to remove recipes... *and* we have a workaround (emailing us)... well, it just keeps sliding down the priority list. :-/

Hang in there?

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added 11 months ago

Thank you, Peter. Lovely explanation, as usual.

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added 11 months ago

Thanks so much, Peter.

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I don't see a button saying "I saved this recipe". I'd like to purge some unsuccessful recipes I've saved (not my own). How do I do it?

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added 4 months ago

Peter, we can't delete our own recipes, but we COULD recycle them, rename them and give them a whole new ingredients list and instructions, couldn't we?

BUT there's one snafu with this idea...really old recipes have really old tags. I can't remember when the change was made that disabled us from typing in our own tags, but older recipes have old tags. I really miss that capability. Can we ever get it back?

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added 4 months ago

p.s. how's Charlie??

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