40,000 News Pages or Blog Posts
Aside from additional material like documents, videos, archives, wiki pages etc.
LAST month - or thereabouts because it could be late October - we finally crossed a milestone. We had published over 40,000 blog posts, even if we no longer use blogging software like WordPress (we abandoned it, as we had been planning since summer of 2022). The new software is solid and stable, written mostly in Perl and still expanded/improved on the go. Today we paid for the site's server until the end of of 2024, so we expect calm and jolly holidays next weekend. Over the Christmas period we plan to overhaul or at least tidy up the wiki material. It's well overdue. There's technical and "content debt" there dating back about 15 years. The top priority was typically to keep abreast of news, not bind together the whole lot, so some material tends to be 'scattered' all over the site, hence harder to find. We need to improve this and it is one challenge we'll try to solve this coming year. Pages like this one about Mozilla tell the story better than one article.
Techrights turns 20 in the year 2026 (our operating system will still get security patches) and our sister site turns 20 in 5 months. My personal site turned 20 this year, but its pages go back to 2002, so next year it will turn 22 (I also have an old site from 1998, but there's nothing of much value in it).
The future of Techrights is not limited to the Web because the Web keeps shrinking and it becomes more proprietary over time. We've thankfully made the transitions and divestments already; for instance, Techrights serves thousands of pages over Gemini every day. Even for Gemini readers alone it is worth running Techrights. █