If you try saving a recipe that is a copy of another recipe, your version will be set to private.
In the future, I will run through all public recipes and set all the duplicates to private.
If you see or experience a problem feel free to email me at lars at e-liquid-recipes.com 
Nice, been awaiting that change for quite a while and it will hopefully help reducing a lot of mess. Way too many release adapted recipes without any meaningful changes. Keep up the good work mate!
Will this affect the following situation?
Iāve been adapting my own recipes, without changes, in order to place them on the recipe database timeline on the date I release them. Otherwise, a recipe created on October 31st, but released on November 27th will be many pages buried instead of showing the proper release date.
I have seen other mixers doing this, too. We add a little note at the end of the notes stating why we adapted it.
There may be a problem for people who added duplicate recipes as favourites. It would be nice to get them a way to keep their favourites.
Is there a plan for this?
The āoriginalā is private in this case, yes? In that case it will still work 
The note should also no longer appear
Well, now there is 
Itās been suggested (multiple times, and long ago) that if you find a recipe you like, adapt it!!
This solves not only the problem you mentioned, but also the fact that many times a recipe can go āmissingā. Either by someone rage quitting, by deciding theyāve further refined it and deleting the original (that you had bookmarked), going āprofessionalā 
(eg: think HiC or Wayne), or whatever other unknown reason.
Yes. Thanks!
By the way: This will soon change, so you wonāt have to do that. It will count the first time you set the recipe as public. Iāll announce when that is in place
Awesome!
Will this change the date when I view the recipe? I remember an issue about a year ago where the creation date was lost, and my older recipes were promenading around acting like they were just created in my personal recipe database timeline.
It was frustrating because I had to go to page 2 to see the recipe Iād made the previous night and the recipes on page 1 were 6 months old and crappy!
Nah, it will function more or less like it does now, except it will record when you first set it public and keep that as the āpublicā creation dateā¦
Woo hoo!!
Bye bye 332+ versions of Mothers Unicorn Milk!
Then there is not much of a point to favourites. But this is only tangentially relevant so letās leave it at that for now.
Thank you bby Jesus, finally we wonāt have to scroll through pages of the same recipe.
Wish we could do that for notes too, I donāt need to read 6000000000 times what HiC wrote. I understand it if I read it once 
but bby steps!
Thanks daath for this upcoming feature that makes cleaning up much easier
If i see something that I may like, i will favorite till a later time when i have the time which more then likely will need to be adapted to base ratio and nic level and perhaps subbed for flavors i have.
Couldnāt have said it better!
Love this, a couple times Iāve accidentally made one Iāve adapted public and not noticed or adapted one of mine and forgot to check if itās public. Now if you could just cure my incompetence. 
Great, I think it will help a lot to sort the recipe base, there are many meaningless duplicates!
Thereās definitely a point to favorites.
But itās not a guarantee of preservation.
Sooner or later, you will find that something you remember āfavoritingā has gone missing, and itās no fault of the system.
Thatās why I mentioned it. And why I gave two examples of instances when Iāve lost recipes (as they were removed by the USERS)ā¦
Daath or death? Lol. Death to the dupes. All hail daath. Lol 