I've had a free membership with allrecipes.com since the early 2000s. I used to print off recipes that I wanted to make and recently made one with a print date of 2007! Once I realized I could create an online recipe box on the site, I started saving recipes to that instead of printing. For the past few years, I've also rated/reviewed recipes and if I decided to make a recipe again, my review would be shown above the other reviews. Consequently, I could immediately see whether I liked or disliked the recipe and why. If I clicked on one of the recipes in allrecipes daily e-mails and decided I might want to make it, I could click the "save" button and it would automatically be saved into my allrecipes recipe box.

I've noticed the last several months that when I pull up a recipe that I've made before and reviewed, my review isn't shown above the other reviews. Consequently, I don't know if I've made it before and, if so, whether I liked/disliked it and why. I can click on "My Reviews" on my allrecipes.com profile page and all the recipes that I've rated/reviewed will come up in reverse chrono order of review date. There's no way to sort these or search for a particular recipe. Since I've reviewed dozens of recipes, the only way to see if I've made and rated a particular recipe is to scroll through "My Reviews" to see if it's there.

I've also noticed in the last few months that if I clicked on one of the e-mailed recipes and then hit the "save" button, nothing happened. This wasn't a one-time occurrence or glitch—it has happened many times so even though the save button is there, it no longer works. The "pin" option was still available so I would pin the recipe to my "Recipes to Make" pinterest board.

Another feature that I liked was the ability to type in my own recipes (and could make public or private--I always chose private). I often clipped recipes from newspapers and had them organized in binders or envelopes until I got around to trying them. Once I learned I could enter recipes to my allrecipes box, I started typing the newspaper ones. I haven't tried to type a recipe in lately so don't know if that feature still works.

I wondered if the allrecipes admin was behind the change to the review and save functions but only for folks who did not have paid memberships—the thought being to entice the free members to get a paid membership. If that's the strategy, I'm not buying. There are plenty of other recipe sites out there that probably have free memberships that offer better service than what allrecipes does now.

In looking at the reviews on Sitejabber, I see that I'm not the only person who has noticed these changes to allrecipes. It used to be a great site, but not any longer. I have unsubscribed from the daily e-mails. I may transition the recipes that I've made and like onto recipe cards and file in my recipe box—old school but sometimes that works just as well—if not better—than more modern ways of doing things.

This website has been in a steep decline since acquired by Meridith and new Microsoft CEO installed. Many users have been unable to access their saved recipes for months as many "Collections" will not open and give an "Oops" message. Latest problem is their website will not open giving an Error Code: INET_E_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE. Problems repeatedly reported to Allrecipes by multiple users (see "Ask the Community") but no reply is given by Allrecipes. More advertisers need to weigh in as they're not reaching the audience they may think they are, and ad $ being wasted.

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