Forking Recipes

Great idea! It seems obvious in hindsight, at least to people who understand forking and dvcs. Which is great. Let's see how non-tech people are able to understand and use such…

Neat. When I saw the headline I thought that this would be too technical to get traction with non-geeks but it looks nice and I could see it becoming popular especially with…

Great idea. Needs a better app and UX but really good idea. Good job!

I like how easy recipe discovery is on forkingrecipes. I think the waterfall layout and search bar were good decisions. Mappum and I made something pretty similar for the last…

You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook…

I'd like to second this, and also say that you should really work hard to establish "fork" and "forking" in contexts that make sense to non-developers. They're second nature for…

You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook…

You should remove all of the pictures that do not show the food and replace all of the low quality pictures as well. When I went to your website the first thing i saw was a bunch…

I find it waaaay too geeky for a cooking website. The idea could be useful but as it is right now, it's very hard to understand how it's supposed to work. (Revision 2, what?)

I find it waaaay too geeky for a cooking website. The idea could be useful but as it is right now, it's very hard to understand how it's supposed to work. (Revision 2, what?)

Just like every other cool page for managing recipes: Please add automatic conversion from/to metric units.

I would use it if you built in conversions for us that think in deciliters and not spoons or lb. Ie a dropdown on the profile settings page.

From a quick browse, I don't see any way to view diffs?

There actually is a really basic diff tool right now (Click on revisions on the recipe page). I'm working on creating a more advanced one now. Any ideas on what a good interface…

Very nice! I'd like to have the option (but not the requirement) to log in with oauth(2) from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. Your site will get a lot more traction if you…

this idea is awesome. The "forking" idea is great for recipes, but you need almost something like a difftool to be able to tell what's different and why? I think with a better UI…

From a quick browse, I don't see any way to view diffs?

We launched Fork the Cookbook about the same time as Forking Recipes too. You might want to check it out: http://forkthecookbook.com We try not to call it Github for Recipes…

Cucumbertown does this very well. They allow you to take a recipe and fork it – called “Write a variation” (on the left) [1]. IIRC quite a few recipes there are created this way.…

http://www.cucumbertown.com does this very well. Cleaner UI and seamless experience. Also has a lot of celebrity chefs onboard as users.

[Forkinit](http://forkinit.com/) does a good job of this but hasn't been updated in a while. You might check them out for other ideas in this space. Looks like you have a great…