Happy Friday folks! Here's some updates that happened on ChefSteps:
- We recently announced the ability to embed ChefSteps recipes onto your own blog. On any recipe page, just click on the "</> Embed this recipe" button.
- When you're not signed in, clicking the fork button now prompts you to sign in.
- In the forum, pasting in a youtube link will automatically convert it into an embedded video.
- Sometimes loading up a ChefSteps recipe can be slow. We recently fixed a bug that should speed things up. It's showing up in our metrics as a small but noticeable increase in performance. Do you feel like it's any faster? How fast? Cheetah fast? Concorde fast? We like to know that sort of thing.
Finally, we've made a decision to remove a feature we've had since the launch of ChefSteps over two years ago: Quizzes. A lot of you have gone through these quizzes, especially early members of our community and that's part of the reason why we've kept it around for so long. However, we're constantly trying to trim the fat (both in cooking and code) and this feature alone accounted for over seven thousand lines of code! The purpose of quizzes is to be able to validate what you've learned at ChefSteps. Fear not, we'll have ways to do this in a more lightweight and fun way. Quizzes will be removed early next week, so go through them this week if you're feeling nostalgic.
