Dear members of the Chowhound family,
After 25 incredible years of sharing culinary insights and mouth-watering recipes, we are saddened to inform you that Chowhound will be closing down on Monday, March 21, 2022.
This incredibly difficult decision is due to limitations in the capabilities and resources required to maintain the site on an ongoing basis. Rather than allowing the site experience to degrade, we have opted to close down the site.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our users for making Chowhound a vibrant and passionate community of food trailblazers for more than two decades. We couldn’t have done this without you and wish you all the best on your future culinary endeavors.
Sincerely,
The Chowhound Team
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lougord99 wrote:Longtime LTH members may be nostalgic, but will not miss the site. Short time members may not even know what is being talked about.
NFriday wrote:There are some people that are worried though that there will be no good place for people to go for home cooking advice.
David Hammond wrote:I have pretty much good memories about Chowhound, and one point that bears mentioning is that when that chat site started up, we'd yet to have other social networks like Facebook and Twitter and all the others that are now part of the fabric of everyday life. In the early Aughts, the idea of connecting with *strangers* online and then, gasp, actually meeting up with these people in real life to, for instance, go on 24-hour eating odysseys, well, that was something new. And it was exciting. We felt like we were in uncharted territory and on the cusp of a new kind of community. We were.
NFriday wrote:People over at Chowhound asked Jim Leff if he would be interested in starting another group such as Chowhound, and he said no.
I did not realize that CBS owned it for a while and bought it from CNET. Apparently when the present owners redesigned the website is when the website really went downhill.
I think their cookbook of the month is moving to Hungry Onion.
David Hammond wrote:NFriday wrote:People over at Chowhound asked Jim Leff if he would be interested in starting another group such as Chowhound, and he said no.
I did not realize that CBS owned it for a while and bought it from CNET. Apparently when the present owners redesigned the website is when the website really went downhill.
I think their cookbook of the month is moving to Hungry Onion.
Not surprised by Leff's response: the time for starting up that kind of site has likely come and gone (and it's possible Leff also signed some kind of non-compete when he sold the site).
ronnie_suburban wrote:It's very unlikely that a non-compete would extended 15+ years but that's just a guess.=R=
nuhanabiha wrote:I have mixed feelings about my time on Chowhound. I joined the site shortly before discovering the LTH forum and was immediately welcomed by its core members, who made me feel like I had found my community. These experiences stand in stark contrast to my time on Chowhound, which was not as enjoyable.
spinynorman99 wrote:nuhanabiha wrote:I have mixed feelings about my time on Chowhound. I joined the site shortly before discovering the LTH forum and was immediately welcomed by its core members, who made me feel like I had found my community. These experiences stand in stark contrast to my time on Chowhound, which was not as enjoyable.
The Internet is not about enjoyment, it's about anonymous personal attacks and propagating conspiracy theories.