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March 2, 2018

GV is Preserving the Web in Amber and Why That's Great News

TL;DR: Amber will make sure that when we link to something on GV, it will be available for readers in the future via. Archive.org, even if the original URL stops...

August 8, 2017

New GV Feature: Contributor Achievements!

Written by Jer Clarke · GV Guides

Hi GV Community, we're launching a small new feature on the GV sites and I wanted to send out a warning because the feature will be sending you email and...

August 3, 2017

Facebook Sharing Woes: Using the URL Debugger to fix post metadata

Written by Jer Clarke · Guidelines

Lena Nitsche Hey everyone. Question: Since a couple of days Facebook isn't showing the thumbnail pictures of posts I want to share on the GV German Facbeook account. Any tips...

July 18, 2017

Instagram Embeds on GV: Updated Guides

Written by Jer Clarke · Guidelines

Hi all, quick post to point out that I've reviewed and updated the Instagram embedding guidelines for GV sites. It's nothing too wild, but there has been some confusion and...

March 16, 2017

GV Has Taglines On Posts Now?

Written by Jer Clarke · Guidelines

Here at Global Voices Tech HQ (my apartment) we try to avoid overloading the editing process for GV posts with a million steps and processes because we don't want you to...

February 24, 2017

Facebook Instant Articles Are Live on GV: What you need to know

Written by Jer Clarke · Announcements

Greetings Earthling Voices! As we promised in our format test post Facebook Instant Articles, the nebulous publishing tool that makes our posts ultra fast for mobile Facebook visitors, is now...

July 14, 2016

Useful new WordPress and Lingua features

Written by Jer Clarke · Announcements

Hello, I'm Jeremy the lead developer for Global Voices. We just updated all sites to use the latest version of WordPress (4.5.3) and I wanted to demo a few cool...

February 19, 2016

Every language in the world: Introducing Wikitongues

Written by DB Udell · Activism

Wikitongues is a movement for human rights. Together with speakers and signers of every language in the world, we’re building the most inclusive cultural archive ever made, raising awareness about...

December 10, 2015

Lingua Tech: Multiple authors per-post is here!

Written by Jer Clarke · GV Guides

As promised in my last post about changes to credits display on Lingua, today we are launching a whole new feature across GV: The option to set more than one...

November 20, 2015

Lingua Tech: All your posts on all your sites!

Written by Jer Clarke · Announcements

Hi GV! I'm Jeremy the Tech Director of Global Voices. Along with our coding contractor Carl, I've been working on a really big update to the plugins that control the...