On Mar 2, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Paul Wilde wrote: > > 3) Blog categories - Currently they appear heavily abused, and the majority > of content (maybe 80%+) is filed under 'Uncategorized', which is a totally > pointless category. I feel categories have no worth if there's only the 1 > blog post set under a category tag, which is the case with at least half of > the current categories. My main concern is that there's just simply too many > category tags to look appealing on the new website. It'll just come across as > a wall of text at the side. > > Cleaning these up would prove to be quite a huge (and very boring) task, > especially tagging all the older entries... but ideally I feel there should > be no more than 15-20 categories. My understanding is that it's general > blogging practice to not have so many, and to keep things as broad as > possible. Some better examples would be 'Fun', 'Development', 'Apple', > 'Release', 'Beta', etc. > > I don't have access to Adium's Google Analytics so I have no real world data > on how often people actually use these, but I'm going to assume it's not > enough for them to be missed by many. So to my real question (assuming no one > is willing to go ahead and clean them up) - Would anyone be against me hiding > categories on the new website? They'd still exist, but just wouldn't be shown. >
I have no objection to the categories disappearing. -Evan
