I’m updating and improving my blog. A lot of that so far has consisted of purging the archives of poor posts (and many reblogs and others that looked like I didn’t mean to post them at all). I’ve also edited a few dozen of my posts, and kept maybe a couple dozen reblogs. That which is left should have nothing less than half-decent, hopefully. There were a lot more reblogs than I knew as well.
That said, nothing is ever perfect and I’m sure I’m not finished editing things yet. I knew that there was some bad stuff in the very many old blog posts, but I didn’t realize quite how bad it was. And how ineffective my use of tags and categories was.
It’s taken a couple-three weeks, but I’ve got down from about 1100 posts to 121 public posts, 82 I unpublished but didn’t delete, some pending edits, and 9 drafts. I never noticed much the pages for editing the whole collection tags and categories in the admin interface until today. I also cut down from about 3000 tags to 112, and from 78 categories to 23. It helped a lot that after deleting so many posts a huge fraction of the tags and some categories had only zero or 1 instances of use.
I’ve wanted to clean this up for years but it always felt like it would take too long, or when I started on it I wound up getting too emotionally tangled up with posts. It’s not very helpful to hang onto a post when I’m only sure I like a few lines. I think it also helped that I started the purge from the beginning (2009) this time instead of the end. The posts were lower quality which helped raise the motivation and ruthlessness to cut through them quickly.
The much reduced archives are under the hamburger menu at the top left or right.
Lost in Mist 