Dropping Homepage Pagination

Last Thursday evening, I glanced at this site after not being all that active on it. I was looking for one of my very old posts. The pagination menu on the home page seemed clunky and is just another way of doing what the archive does. At that point, I just thought it looked like a waste of screen space. The archive is cleaner and better suited for going that far backwards to view my oldest posts.

This blog is old. The 1700+ posts pagination was clunky, with hundreds of pages. Sure, Zola took care of the dirty work of generating it, so I hadn’t really noticed it much before. I just started thinking that it didn’t serve much purpose when I saw it the other day. I already have the full archive. For the most part, the old stuff is irrelevant to now. I looked at it and thought it was a worse duplication of other ways my posts are organized.

Additionally, I have tags that organize posts by tag. The tags are handled by Zola just fine. The summaries go with that. They are on their separate pages.

Yes, I realize it is nothing more than a bit of bikeshedding, but it was time for a change. I enjoy changing things and playing with stuff on here. It is a hobby for me, and I enjoy tweaking things. It is as simple as that.

As a digital packrat, I kept the old template as a backup in case I were to decide I would rather revert back to the old way. At this stage, I am just simplifying things.

Simplifying things like this will make it easier for me to switch between static site generators in the future. I have no plans to do so, but Soupault has at times grabbed my interest. Zola still does and always served me well. However, every so often I get the urge to try something different. Usually, when I do that, I don’t actually plan on it. I dive right into it.