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[the_rck]

metanews is having trouble. There are only three of us trying to keep up with everything, and we really need another couple of people. We have nobody doing LJ link finding and nobody doing Tumblr link finding.

LJ gave us some trouble posting this week because they've changed the default posting interface from html to visual editor. We'll be fine as long as we remember to click over to html when we want to post, but it's an added hassle.

Tumblr posting is totally borked, and none of us understand Tumblr worth a darn. We had a way of posting that kind of worked. It was clunky, but it rendered the links without us having to fiddle with the Tumblr interface much. That method no longer works. Today's Tumblr post is a single, undifferentiated block of text, and none of the links work at all. None of us have any idea why that happened or how to fix it because none of the three of us have ever done anything with Tumblr but make the post by rote.

Our efforts to find more volunteers turned up one person who might be able to link find on LJ (we don't currently because we don't have enough volunteers to do it), but LJ also hasn't been very rich in links in the places we look for quite a while, so missing it wasn't a big deal.

We desperately need someone who can search for links on Tumblr. Of course, on Tumblr, we run into the problem of trying to figure out where a given piece of meta originated and when. We don't, as a rule, link anything more than two weeks old, and by the time we come upon most Tumblr links (usually via Pinboard now), they're too old. They may be brilliant meta, but they're too old. (I think this rule is to keep us from posting duplicates. We can check back two weeks to see if something's already been posted without much trouble. Checking back through six months or a year worth of weekly posts is too much.)