Urged by government to save money, BBC decided to nix its recipe website—much to the chagrin of many a Briton.
But, one web developer single-handedly solved most of the issue and it only took him several hours.
BBC announced on May 17 it will be cutting back on its online services to achieve savings prescribed by the government.
Among others, the BBC Food website was to be scrapped, together with its library of some 11,000 recipes.
That didn’t sit well with many. Emma Barrington from London set up a petition pleading with BBC to keep the recipes. It has attracted about 160,000 signatures by 8:15 p.m. (Eastern Time).
The BBC issued a clarification stating that the recipes won’t be lost. They'll be archived, blocked from search engines like Google, but accessible if a person has a link of a specific recipe page.
