Tastespotting - what happened?
I am so crushed about this. Tastespotting was the first stop on my daily blog tour. I'm going to miss the inspiration and beauty of that site very much!!
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Father's Day cake ideas?
I made the devil's food cake and frosting from Eggbeater(Shuna Fish Lydon's blog) for my birthday and it was fantastic. The frosting has sour cream in it, which gives it a really nice taste.
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Tastespotting - what happened?
From the front page:
"we're just marinating a bit longer, but tastespotting will be back shortly..."
Tastespotting - what happened?
The site also mentions a new site they're working on: Liquorious in alpha, devoted to, you guessed it - drinks! This may tide some of you over for a bit.
Tastespotting - what happened?
WAIT! DONT WORRY! I just went on to the tastespotting website and it says that the site will be back up and running shortly!!! I am sooooo happy now!!!!
Tastespotting - what happened?
Thanks for taking into account my concerns, both FP daily and gawker are looking good and even though I have asked my hubby if we could take up the void left behind when TS left ('would love to, but seriously, we don't have the time'), I am glad someone is. Just hoping it/they will be close to as good as TS was. :)
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocuisine Regarding Food Gawker, we are definitely rejecting submissions. The photo quality will continue to increase (to get onto Food Gawker) as the quantity of posts increases.
As far as image resizing is concerned, we are just cropping and not resizing similar to TS. The occasional pixelation that you are seeing is due to a reduction of image quality to 94%. We just upped it to 96%. Since we aren't monetizing the site currently and paying for hosting on our on dime, we need to stay wary of our hosting bandwidth usage. We hope to not reduce image quality in the near future.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who has visited the site. The response has been really positive so far!
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocusine: thanks for the input... though right now I'm not thinking I'll ever make mine that similar to tastespotting. I wouldn't be able to keep up with it! And I plan on rejected photos that I don't like, too, and maybe getting some dialouge going about what makes a good photo.
About the resizing, I'm going to nix it. Yesterday I thought I'd make all the photos as near to 500 px wide so it looks uniform and clean, but I check the site on a PC today and it looked crappy.
I do like food gawker a lot for its tastespottingness. Great job, Chuck!
Tastespotting - what happened?
2 things about these tastespotting copies:
okey, I love that all these tastespotting copies are coming up but,
1. i liked that they rejected stuff, and i know it ticked people off, and would leave me scratching my head as to why some stuff was up and some wouldn't (they rejected two of mine that kinda made me rethink some stuff) but i LIKED that. and i think that is what needed in a replacement.
2. Tastespotting either requested a 250x250 pixel photo or they would cut 250x250 out of your picture, they didn't resize.
these posted links above seem to be resizing or shrinking to fit in an area that they don't fit, therefor the pictures are pixalated (spell?) and look bad.
Tastespotting - what happened?
I spent the weekend making my own tastespotting replacement since my wife and I pretty much can't live without it. I'm trying to expand upon the idea and have already added a few new features that tastespotting never had, like voting, comments and the ability to save your favorite posts. Hopefully it will get us through this dark time without tastespotting.
If anyone has any ideas or features that they would have liked to have seen on tastespotting, please drop me a line and let me know.
Tastespotting - what happened?
I SO miss Tastespotting. Although since it's departure, I have found myself eating less in the afternoon.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a site just like our dearly departed Tastespotting, with the all the food porn pictures that linked back to blogs, AND had a handy search function.
Tastespotting - what happened?
We created a site similar to Tastespotting: www.recipemuncher.com
We did not want to create a copycat, so it's a bit different: instead of submiting pictures one by one you submit your blog and we automatically pull the pictures every time there is a new post.
The site is only 2 days old, but we'll work hard to make it a nice place to hang out ;)
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