Recently the Chef community mailing list was migrated to Discourse. This caused some confusion and unhappiness in the community so I wanted to write up a quick overview of the situation as I know it.
Using Discourse instead of an email mailing list
🔖 This topic explains the advantages of using Discourse over traditional email mailing lists for group conversations and community management. 🙋 Required user level: All users Discourse is a modern platform designed for group conversations that offers significant advantages over traditional email mailing lists. While email remains effective for one-on-one or small group communications, Discourse excels at handling larger, ongoing discussions. Here’s why you shoul...
Recipe Exchange Community Feed (@forum.recipe.exchange)
A stream of public recipes shared by the @recipe.exchange community. All interactions sync between Bluesky and recipe.exchange.
News: WHAT open mailing list announcement — WHATWG
Living Systems Network – Living Systems Network
Holding space to build and celebrate community to #coGrow and #coCook. coFood Vancouver catalyzes neighbours and projects doing good work in our food communities. Together we practice collaborative urban farming through a #permaculture lens, and convene dinners & dialogues on #foodwaste - #foodsupply - #foodjustice - #foodtech - #foodeducation
recipe.exchange - Share Your Recipes
A simple, clutter-free way to discover and share your favorite recipes.
Open Social Network Cookbook
The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?
Manifesto-lite: On Decoupling Canadian Taste (and Geese, I guess)
A newsletter just feels like shouting into the void, but as an artist, I am “supposed” to have one.
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
Mailing-List 2.0: Discourse
You got a few people working on something and you seek for an efficient way to communicate (ideas, news, messages, etc.) online. This guide gives you an overview about what you could expect in the past and what you should ask for nowadays. Mails According to Wikipedia, the first mail was sent in 1971. The access to a network we call Internet today was quite limited in these early days. Users have been mostly universities, and I guess, not everyone, but mostly the STEM disciplines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. So it comes at no surprise that mails are perceived as inconvenient and antiquated.
Living Museum of Food: Stories, Recipes, and Culinary Heritage from Traditional Communities
[PT-BR FOLLOWS] Introduction Back when city streets were paved with cobblestones, public telephones stood on street corners, and many neighborhoods were still unpaved, life followed a different rhy…
Finally had a sec to write about the conversation component we added to the @atproto.com blog.
Bring Atmospheric conversations to any website
am.jimray.netNote: the community forum has moved to discourse.atmosphere.community Thanks to @scottlanoue.com for handling the entire migration as part of the community infra team. Email is now @comail.at powered! New AIP instance login.atmosphere.community Full write up on the forum
Discourse upgrade and move to new discourse.atmosphere.community domain
discourse.atmosphere.communityFirst post in my new blog series about developing @arabica.social called "Coffee Thoughts". This one talks about how the app started and how I ended up building it on atproto
How Arabica Started
coffee-thoughts.leaflet.pubRecipes and cooking tips
Don't skip the ground star of anise (I put 2). I have an old cheap Krups grinder that I use as a spice grinder ever since I bought a burr…
Fig , yoghurt & almond cake | Ottolenghi Recipes
Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein.bsky.social)
