From 2a42e2e2a30da4d32296f20757ae4f53470bd4c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: moanos Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 22:26:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat: minor corrections --- content/post/checking-shelters/index.md | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/post/checking-shelters/index.md b/content/post/checking-shelters/index.md index f5b0091..ff2ad82 100644 --- a/content/post/checking-shelters/index.md +++ b/content/post/checking-shelters/index.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "How to manually check hundreds of animal shelters - every 14 days" date: 2025-11-03T12:05:10+02:00 lastmod: 2025-11-03T16:05:10+02:00 draft: false -image: "uploads/animal-shelters.png" +image: "uploads/checking-shelters.png" categories: [ 'English' ] tags: [ 'notfellchen', 'animal shelter', 'animal welfare', 'django' ] --- @@ -11,12 +11,15 @@ tags: [ 'notfellchen', 'animal shelter', 'animal welfare', 'django' ] I run a website called [Notfellchen](https://notfellchen.org) that list animals that are waiting for adoption. It's currently restricted to fancy rats in Germany and that for good reason: Running this website involves **checking every shelter every two weeks manually**. You need to visit the website, check if there are new animals, contact the shelter -and add them to notfellchen if they allow it. This takes time. A lot. Here is how the process works in detail and how I -reduced it to a manageable effort. +and add them to notfellchen if they allow it. This takes time. A lot. + +This blog post will outline some of the things I did in order to streamline this and make it possible to **check every +german shelter in 2.5 hours**. ## General process -Here is how the general process looks +When you establish a process. want others to help you or if you want to find inefficiencies, it's a good idea to +formalize it. So here is a rough BPMN diagram of the whole process. {{< html animal-discovery.drawio.html >}} @@ -110,3 +113,10 @@ up a majority of the time. Here are some that stood out it's hard to know if there is a technical issue or if there are no animals for your search. * **No static links** Sites where you have to click through a menu to get to the right page, but you can not link directly to it. +* **No website** Seriously, there are some animal shelters that only use Instagram or Facebook to tell people about the + animals they have. This is not only a privacy nightmare, it's also incredibly hard to find out which information is + up-to-date. Furthermore, there exists no data structure, so posts about animals often miss crucial information like + the sex. + +While I obviously have some grievances here, I know the organizations never have enough resources, and they'd +usually love to have a nicer website. Just keep that in mind too. \ No newline at end of file