People looking for some specific pieces can search them through Google (or internal Search if I implement one).
A blog is structured in a way that old posts must remain less relevant and more difficult to find. It's a good enough structure for a news feed. If you write columns, opinions, research, timeless material in general, it's a horrible structure.
We've seen a plethora of blog engines around but they are all exactly the same: a post has many comments, new posts go first in the feed, old posts go to hidden pages in a precarious pagination system.
Several other things have been tried already, none of them succeeded in solving this issue. Tags, featured articles, hierarchical categories, random visualizations of old posts in the main page. None solve the problem of discoverability of old still-relevant posts for new readers.
Maybe this is an unsolvable problem and I don't have a good idea to move forward with this structure. So I'm interested in seeing if anyone else tried to tackle this problem with a different perspective or if new approaches are emerging in this field. Please comment below if you've seen new ideas coming out.
Post.order("created_at DESC").page(params[:page]) is history. What's next?
