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: Althouse

Pesky blog problem.

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Blogger forced me to accept the new Blogger. Last May, I was getting the message "The legacy interface will still be optionally available" and I kept opting for old Blogger, but now that's been taken away. I'm trying to adapt to it, but it has one terrible problem. When I try to add tags, it no longer makes suggestions as I start to type. Not only do I have to type every letter, I have to remember what tags I already have and in what form. Some names are only the last name, others are first and last, and others include a title (like "Justice Kennedy"), and some are all lower case. I have to search my blog to avoid starting a new tag.

With some research, I discovered that Blogger maxes out at 5,000 tags. It won't suggest tags anymore if there are that many to scan! I suppose the idea is no one is likely to come close to 5,000.

Could I have more than 5,000 tags? Is that the problem! If I knew and if I knew how many more than 5,000 I have, I would delete that number of tags. I'd go back in the archive and find the names that I thought were going to be more important that never got more than one post or two. If I was only 10 tags over 5,000, that would be easy. But maybe I'm 10,000 over. Is that possible? Even then, I would do the work if only I knew that cutting those tags would restore the functionality, but I don't know.

I'm undertaking the work of going back into the archive, finding unimportant tags and cutting them. I do it in small sessions and keep hoping that I'm getting down closer to 5,000 ? even though I realize I may already be below 5,000 and the number of tags might not be the problem at all.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 15, 2020 (boomark / email).