I use the site mostly on my phone, so the “hovering” doesn’t work unfortunately.
I no longer post on Chowhound, but I read the France board, because we visit Paris so often. The France board is still quite active.
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Ah, yes. The hot mess that is Chowhound for mobile. I can deal with most of the nonsense, but for the past few months, the back button - which used to take you to the place you left from - returns you to the top of the page. So you have to scroll down. Every. Single. Time. The fix the moderators suggest? Opening a new tab instead of clicking through. I do not think this is a good option.
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Curious why you think it’s employees (other than those flagged as such)? You can see the history of members, and many of them are from long before the changes.
Whether one interprets it as a sense of community developed over time or clique-ishness (especially in certain of the home cooking boards) is a coin flip. Flame-wars don’t seem a requisite for a robust food discussion 
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D-bags don’t last long here. This is a pretty drama free cozy friendly nook of the sea of evil that awaits us online .
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I’m just being a jerk. 
Actually, I like the CH employees (or ones I’m calling out as CH employees) the most. I’ll miss them, but really, there’s no reason for me to stay on CH anymore, it holds no appeal for me. I was barely posting when they deleted my post, which was the icing on the cake. It was more the excuse, rather than the reason.
And the flame-war comment was in reference to everyone being nice (which CH is, it’s a very polite place) but ultimately boring, and I feel silly talking to people who seem to work there and are not interested in the things I’m interested in. And I don’t think Homecooking is cliqu-y at all, they’ve been very nice, except for a few which I personally can’t stand, but that will happen everywhere. Whoever is running that place is doing a good job at moderating.
I’m more excited to see Hungry Onion take traction and having joined in so early, I can guide it to be a forum I’d like to participate in, rather than complain how it’s not.
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I’ve seen successful forums for photography and blogging, but food forums seems to be a haven for misfits, every single one. I’m hoping that HO stays a drama-free zone. It takes a village…
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MIn their defense, there was a point when negative feedback was loud and constant especially when the massive changes went into effect. Given that ‘management’s’ position was that it was their site (not the users’), trying to keep the intense negativity away from the eyes of those who were less invested ( and especially newcomers) wasn’t all that difficult to understand. Misguided, unfair, dumb, stupid … all of those things in the eyes of what seemed to be the core content creators… but still understandable if you could detach from the emotional investment. Obviously lots of people couldn’t and/or just chose not to. I guess I just viewed it as ‘their football’.
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I have never read anything negative on the home cooking board or what’s for dinner. It always wow, thumbs up , or What was the recipe . On hungry onion
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I agree.
OK, already.
Welcome both. Good to see an old Chowhound pal.
Apologies for the delay - I’ve been away on holiday for three weeks and literally just got arrived home .
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Sheesh. You go on vacation and don’t take us, your favorite people in the world (possibly a hyperbolic assessment of our stature), along with?
(Just kidding - welcome home and am looking forward to reading of your adventures!)
I sort of did take one of us - but you’ll have to wait a day or so until I’ve typed up my reviews to see how.
And, of course, Onions were there in spirit, guiding me through New England dinners.
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Likewise! Hope to read about your dinners on WFD.
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I was on Chowhound for several years but left after the disaster of a redesign. Haven’t been back there since I found Hungry Onion.
What I used to enjoy most on CH was the cookbook threads.
But here on HO I enjoy the WFD thread (even though I have not posted to it…never think to take a picture of what I make but I do enjoy and admire everyone else’s work!).
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Do join us on the WFD thread. Posting photos is not a prerequisite.
Good to have you back, @Harters.
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^^^this!
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Not a prerequisite. But we and or (I) like photos.
I cook by photos, or the photo in my head, not recipe
But shouldn’t bar someone if they can’t manage, right? Photos are obviously important to me - a partial motive for making the move!
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Who said anything about barring. Absolutely not. I like photos but not maditory
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