Jack Monroe #498 Bootlickcook

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Looking back on archive dot org I think I can see what happened. She was originally on Wordpress dot com but in 2018 she transferred over to self host. Self hosted sites are more flexible, but you have got to be more responsible with things like backups. Something went wrong with the self host and she lost everything. Luckily she hadn't deleted the old Wordpress dot com site so went back to using that again.

ETA: Nothing about this is expensive. If anything her website costs got cheaper. She might have hired someone for a couple of days to recreate the missing pages from Archive dot org.
Excellent sleuthing, Seafy H. I suspected something like that might be the case. What's the betting that "Something going wrong with the self host" involved her not renewing the hosting fee?
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Thanks HTRIA. I wonder if this months downturn is related to Cost of Living? April is the new financial year, the bills all go up, maybe you got your pay increase but you’re still struggling or anticipate still struggling when it do3s come.
I know I went through my monthly budget in April
I also reckon she's losing higher tier subscribers at a faster rate than lower tier ones, or people downgrading their subs, so I think the actual monthly income is probably going down faster than the raw subscriber numbers would belie
 
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Her biggest problem is that she is not that bright and she is a narcissist whose endgame of fame has done no one any favours.

She lives in a weird (rented) bubble and despite it being a lonely place (3 failed engagements- GO WELL PAL), is too lazy and self absorbed to do anything about it. Fair enough but no one wants to hear her nasal voice ANYWHERE.
 
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Excellent sleuthing, Seafy H. I suspected something like that might be the case. What's the betting that "Something going wrong with the self host" involved her not renewing the hosting fee?
I don't like to speculate, but if I were forced to I'd suggest having access to too many technical gubbins caused her to accidentally delete the whole site in an act of incompetence. She clearly didn't keep any backups because whatever happened could not be easily remedied.

ETA: depending on the hosting provider, self hosted Wordpress can be more vulnerable to malware attacks
 
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A dozen engineers? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What a website repair looks like in the mind of someone who's never had a website repaired

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What it actually looks like

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duck me, she is THICK.
Lol she’s such a clown…the idea that a customer accidentally deleting their website (or whatever on earth she managed to do) would warrant ‘a dozen engineers and specialists’ to work on it for FOURTEEN HOURS STRAIGHT is hilarious. Either they can restore it from a backup (which they would have a standard process for and would not take fourteen hours of faffing), or they can’t and would tell her right away. No one is paying twelve members of staff to drop everything else and spend fourteen hours trying to reverse a user error.

I’m sure she loves to imagine the entire team shutting everything else down and working round the clock until it’s fixed because ‘omg what if someone wants a horrible slop recipe from our most cherished and famous customer and now the site’s down they’re going to starve to death’ but like everything else she fantasises about, it simply didn’t happen.
 
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However I also think the doing sweet FA is having a deleterious effect on her, although I doubt she can see it. More people have noticed and more people are being vocal about her on twitter, etc. which despite claims of living best life, etc. she clearly reads.
If she was doing all the volunteering and stuff she claims to be doing, she'd at least have some structure to her day, but she does nothing. Doesn't post about the books she claims to read, doesn't go on walks, doesn't post about her recipe development. She reminds me of a former colleague who retired and was completely rudderless because he had nothing to get up for.
 
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A kid on their way to school, in school shoes and carrying a bag, probably walks at 2.5mph, maybe 3 if they're hurrying, but there's a reason Shakespeare refers to "the whining schoolboy, with his satchel/And shining morning face, creeping like a snail/unwillingly to school." Kids don't hurry to school.

Walking seven miles to school at 2.5mph would take nearly three hours. Assuming school started at 9, did her parents never stop to question why their daughter was leaving the house at 6am? Did they not wonder where she was in the three hours between school finishing at 3:30 and her falling through the door, exhausted, at 6:30pm?
Quite. My kid has to walk home for just under a mile after school. When he gets home, he looks like this

 
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Well I did my weekly check in Morrisons and GK is gone. The 2 copies which have been there since January have disappeared, as have lots of others. So I don’t think they’ve sold, I think they are doing a big changeover.
wonder how long till they end up in the Works or Poundland?
 
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What calamity is supposed to have happened to this website? It looks like the most basic Wordpress dot com i.e. hosted by Wordpress themselves not even self hosted by guest. The theme looks like a standard one that comes free and I doubt it even has plugins. Looking it up on whois the nameservers all point to Wordpress dot com and not a self host. With a custom domain the cost of hosting by Wordpress is very little a year £100/200 max. Whatever happened to it, you have very little access to the technical stuff so rely on their customer services.

ETA: the domain name is registered with wildwestdomains.com which is the Wordpress dot com registrar.
What I don't understand (among another 100 things) is how guest has so little understanding of anything vaguely technical. She grew up with it, not like us oldies, but she's useless at it. How comes?
Case in point - any, and I mean ANY bull posted online will be scrutinised AND saved for ever and ever. So, think before making stupid and easily verifiable claims, Monroe. We have receipt, and a wealth of knowledgeable frauen here.
 
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I’ve just realized where guest gets inspo for all her fictional life events and complete nonsense. She’s working her way through Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musicals!
And, much like Andrew himself, she's a huge Tory! Really makes you fink.
 
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I also reckon she's losing higher tier subscribers at a faster rate than lower tier ones, or people downgrading their subs, so I think the actual monthly income is probably going down faster than the raw subscriber numbers would belie
100000% this. Also pre Nigella her average per sub would have been lower as she was positioning it as a sponsor a starving child offering for the £3.50 tier so imagine way more ppl were on that or £7 versus the Nigella acquired cohort. Like yes she still has >400 subscribers and is getting money for nothing but she’s not gonna be able to maintain herself in the way she’s come accustom to just with a dwindling Patreon now she’s getting no paid work. The next year will be v interesting.
 
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What I don't understand (among another 100 things) is how guest has so little understanding of anything vaguely technical. She grew up with it, not like us oldies, but she's useless at it. How comes?
Case in point - any, and I mean ANY bull posted online will be scrutinised AND saved for ever and ever. So, think before making stupid and easily verifiable claims, Monroe. We have receipt, and a wealth of knowledgeable frauen here.
Absolutely this! I'm 15 years older than her and have a bit of tech knowledge (not much mind) largely picked up from having actually worked for the last 30 years. She's barely worked and seemingly has zero idea of what it's like, hence the nonsense about 14 IT experts working 14 hours straight and interviews where you're asked to name facts about the cleaning staff 🙄
 
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When I was looking for the goat’s leg on a train frivolities I encountered something else
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@Marmalade Atkins Easter screenshotted forever favourite.
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Sloppy Savers, we barely knew ye.
Shocking, isn't it. As if we (and the world at large) didn't know what she looks like. Deluded fool.
 
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I feel like, with the collective and varied skillz of the frauen, we could run the country efficiently..

And I do my own website and I'm ... Getting on a bit!
 
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She has no respect for knowledge or expertise at all. She just thinks she will be brilliant at everything, including the technical stuff. I bet she would really object to paying someone else to do the work.
 
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Exactly, it’s absolutely possible that she did play for the county but it means duck all lol, you don’t have to be good if you’re playing at under 14s county level. Also yeah, she definitely has some sort of hang up about her intelligence / academic achievements if she’s still bragging about playing chess as a child 😭😭😭.
Chess for the bleep
I’ve just realized where guest gets inspo for all her fictional life events and complete nonsense.
She’s working her way through Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musicals!

We’ve had Cats Jack
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“Starlight Express” Jack
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(and coming home from Croydon on the train with this in a bag)
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Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoatcast Jack
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(ETA thanks to @Brian Butterfield anf Marmalade Atkins for the screenies AND nice collage
Brilliant!
Every time I see the shimmering black-eye I just can’t even believe her audacity 😂
 
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