Agreed completely. From a reader perspective, blogs are also often not friendly to new visitors. How do I find the best entry point? Which entries are fluff and which are deep dives? The best you can usually hope for is some tagging mechanism, but blogs generally expend little to no effort thinking about architecture, discovery, browsability, or the reader’s progression through the site. Don’t get me wrong - that’s a lot to ask of a casual effort. But I do wish we had a genre/format for sharing one’s thoughts online that did encourage reflection and iteration on that level.
>From a reader perspective, blogs are also often not friendly to new visitors. How do I find the best entry point? Which entries are fluff and which are deep dives?
A lot of that is a flaw in the blogging software and the failure of the author to realize they need to customize the design to make it accessible to readers.
One thing I've tried to combat the chaos of blog structures is to include links to other posts in series as a header (when it makes sense).
The biggest hurdle of moving away from a blog to a static format is that blog posts are timestamped and there's no real expectation that they're maintained. With static pages, however, I try to keep them up-to-date.
