It’s back‼️

[cookie1]

Surprise everyone. The forum is back, sadly we have no idea for how long. Judy and I have been in contact with MM but haven’t had a lot of feedback. In fact my last email to him was quite pointed. And said that obviously the forum was dead. I didn’t get a reply.

I hope everyone is well and life is fun. ❌❌❌❌

[judydawn]

So nice to see it working, hopefully it will stay like that. I’ve found that I really need it when it’s down as I think our recipes are much better than Cookidoo. I’ve just browsed a few pages of biscuits and cakes and it’s great that we have so many reviews for most recipes. The number ranking system on Cookidoo doesn’t do it for me.

[mab19]

It's so good to have the forum up and running again.  I do miss it when it's down. I agree with you Judy, I rarely use anything from Cookidoo, if I want a recipe or to check something I always look here first.

[cookie1]

I must agree. The recipes on here are tried and tested, often with comments as well.

[Cuilidh]

Hello everyone.

What a fluke - I was just about to delete the forum from my contacts and thought "oh I had better make sure that it is really dead", and here it is.  I will let Chookie know as we were talking over Easter about the forum and she may not be aware that it is up and running again, for however long ...  MM has certainly done his best to kill it these past couple of weeks so I suspect we should make the best of it whilst we can.

Having said all that (pessimist that I am) I am delighted to have it back again, I missed you all.  I must try to go through everything so that I can transfer recipes to my cook book - how do you go through 10+ years of posts?

[judydawn]

True Marina. I have a boxful of print outs of recipes I’ve done but I still like to check out things I’ve not done and read reviews etc. Our needs and diets change over time.

[cookie1]

I have the same intentions.

[K Atie]

So agree with everyone it’s so nice it’s back , I missed everyone  . Also think the recipes are better on here.

[achookwoman]

Thanks Marina for letting me know .  I had deleted the Forum from my iPad but fortunately it was still on my phone. Spent hours trying to reinstall it on iPad. Hell,  I do miss all you lovely people.
The greatest mystery of all time is why the membership for the Forum has dropped off. It’s free, has thousands of recipes with comments and are more relevant than Cookidoo. I see people new to TMX asking for basic recipes. They are all on the Forum. Can’t recommend people to Forum when it’s down so often.
I have been using Facebook but it’s not the same. I don’t know these people so I’m hesitant to post often. Also there are several TMX sites on Facebook.

[achookwoman]

Oops, I forgot to say how grateful I am for the effort Judy and Cookie make in contacting MM. very frustrating for you both but we do appreciate your efforts.

[judydawn]

Thanks Chookie, glad you didn’t delete the forum from every device. I see MM hasn’t added new members for some time. I printed out your Portuguese custard tarts recipe as soon as it came back, DD1 would love these.

[Cuilidh]

Oops, I forgot to say how grateful I am for the effort Judy and Cookie make in contacting MM. very frustrating for you both but we do appreciate your efforts.

I agree totally.  Thank you both so much for getting us back together on the forum again.

[achookwoman]

I think we need to do some forward planning. Any ideas?

[K Atie]

Yes thank you Cookie and Judy so much for all your work on this .

[Cuilidh]

I think we need to do some forward planning. Any ideas?

I agree, it would be such a great shame if we lost everything on the forum - not only friendships but a treasure trove of recipes and stories.  I don't know anything about how a forum works or how to operate it.  Is it covered by MM's copyright?  Does anyone know anything about these things?  Didn't some of the older members create a separate forum several years ago?  Does anyone know anything about that?