NYTCC and Snowdrops

 There has been a lot of talk about the NYTimes divesting itself of the NYTCC since the announcement was made a couple of weeks back.  An offering of my own thoughts...  the future of this group is completely up to all of us 😷💕

I believe initially the NYTimes began this group by soliciting subscribers to join the NYTCC (that’s how I joined) promoting signing up for NYTimes Cooking...  which as you know... has its own paywall of $40/year.  At first the group was all about NYTimes recipes and members of NYTCC promoted them thru cooking and posting about their experiences.

Many of us, me included, did sign up for NYTimes Cooking to have access to all their recipes.

Over time the NYTCC grew to more than 77,000 members...  the posts and cooking changing with new members...  more recipes arriving from other countries... which is fascinating... from other chefs and cookbooks...  eye opening...  eventually NYTimes recipes became part of the whole...  instead of the main dish. 

In my opinion... at that point it became a big expense for the NYTimes to manage...  if they weren’t getting enough of an increase in sign ups for NYTimes Cooking...  to offset the cost of running the site...  why bother.

So it appears that it became a business decision to let the group go...  I don’t think it has to do with folks not complying with the rules all the time (all groups have that issue) but more of...  it just didn’t pay to keep salaried admins and mods on the payroll vs the increase in NYTimes Cooking subscriptions.

BTW... I did write to NYTimes Cooking to ask them if they would consider a new group behind the paywall for NYTimes recipes only...  at the moment there is no plan for a new group...  yet...  but keep you’re eyes peeled...

I believe most of us plan to remain and see how the group reforms with new mods and admins... volunteers... who will continue to volunteer unless we members become difficult to moderate...  then they’ll quit... cause no one needs to do this for free AND get aggravated...  and we don’t want that.

So, it’s up to all of us to be grown ups and treat others the way we want to be treated here...  pretty simple, eh?  

Snow drops in the garden...  heralding spring 😷💕