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Things I learned moving 312 posts into one home

First posted as a thread on 5 October 2026 · kept here so it doesn’t scroll away

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   Lena Ortiz1 / 6

   I just finished moving ten years of writing into one site. 312 pieces. A few things I learned, in case you are thinking about it.

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   Lena Ortiz2 / 6

   1. Your old writing is better than you fear and worse than you hope. Leave the dates on.

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   Lena Ortiz3 / 6

   2. Topics appear by themselves when everything is in one place. Mine turned out to be attention, cities, sound and the small web. I didn't plan that.

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   Lena Ortiz4 / 6

   3. Broken links are the real work. Every old platform has its own idea of an address.

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   Lena Ortiz5 / 6

   4. Clean URLs you can say out loud are a gift to your future self.

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   Lena Ortiz6 / 6

   5. Do it before you need it. The day someone asks for an essay from 2019 is too late.