YOUR ARCHIVE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR FEED
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ESSAY / OPINION

A feed tells me what happened recently. An archive tells me what mattered.

If a project lasts years, its structure should not depend on visitors scrolling backward through years of posts. Build indexes. Make collections. Write retrospective notes. Preserve old versions when they explain the new ones.

A long-lived site should become easier to understand as it grows, not harder.