Are the mods still around?

I'm not really available to fiddle with stuff anymore. I'm swamped with work and always feel behind. This is the first full day off I've given myself in months and it's only because I'm too tired from a 10 hour session in another city to do anything productive apart from make dinner for my kid. Sorry, but when I have more than an hour of free time lately I'm too frazzled for anything but tv... to the point that I would be happy to step down as a moderator because the current job is too intimidating for me being a single parent who has wound up freelancing in creative fields since the peak of the pandemic. It was great at first to get away from my day job but the current economic situation is making it less fun.

I also really think the current gear submission system was a bad idea and never made any bones about it. Sure the prank submissions like sex toys have stopped but at what cost? I suspect a lot of the mods are frustrated by it even if they appreciate why it was implemented (and there were really good reasons that I won't bring up unless the admins want to discuss them publicly). The moderation staff is a mix of working professionals and college students and knowing most of them pretty well I'm sure we all have a lot on our real life plates lately while the job has been made 10×harder with the submission system. Like most forums our mods are volunteers but the responsibilities are different and have become daunting.

I'm only speaking for myself here in the previous 2 paragraphs while spitballing as to where we've all disappearedto. It's not an excuse, just a reason. I still love the admins, the other mods, many of the users and the core idea behind equipboard. Okay, my brain hurts. Peace.

What gear are you trying to add?

Here you go: https://equipboard.com/items/ibanez-ns10l

Not sure what the back end looks like, but Reverb links only use product pages which seems to cause a bit of a bottleneck. No idea how easy or difficult it would be to modify it to allow for listing links as well as product pages, but that would reduce the need to add products from some smaller companies. ex: I have a few GUPTech pedals (smaller company from Canada) that I requested to be added. They have listing pages on Reverb but not product pages, so I can't add them myself with the tool. The only caveat with that is that may cause an increase in duplicate listings.

Just wanted to check in on this as there's quite a backlog in the gear add request thread. I totally understand the time thing, people have lives/jobs/families/etc. Do you guys maybe need some help? Maybe a couple of members could act as temporary mods to go over the back log of gear, double-check for duplicates, etc. I wouldn't mind helping out for a couple of weeks to help clean that up a bit.

Yeah, some of my instruments and pedals are pretty rare ones, occasionally listed on Reverb but not in the right format... I think this is a common issue :/ I also posted 2 of my rare basses to the chat but no reply yet, the last mod reply I've seen there was a few months old