Tag wrangling

[igenlode]

I suspect I'm probably the only person who, when deciding that a new blog tag is needed, goes back through hundreds of past entries (I'm currently on ?skip=380) in order to locate all the places where it ought retrospectively to have applied :-p

It never did make much sense that I had a tag for cold but not one for heat -- it was just a matter of historical accident, dating back I think to importing my old blog from MySpace. Which I never did finish doing...

[Edit: I managed to navigate all the way to ?skip=770 (2016) using the "Previous 20" links, but beyond that the site only lets you view one post at a time and go to 'Previous Day', and since this is even slower than skimming the summary versions at 20 per page I've given up on re-tagging at around August 2015.]

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[igenlode]

It's a bit annoying that Dreamwidth won't let you browse back beyond a certain number of posts -- if I really cared, I could always use the 'Archive' links, but from memory I didn't suffer nearly so much from heat as from cold in the old days, which is why there wasn't a tag for it. (I know that in past re-tagging sprints I managed to get all the way back to 2012, so I'm paying the penalty for having become apparently more prolix as of recent years.)

I wasn't entirely surprised by hitting the limit, as I have a memory of reading in the Support Area something similar about a hardwired limit on the number of posts that can be linked to using tags -- about 500, I think. Beyond that, any earlier pages using the tag simply won't be displayed when you click on it :-(
I assume this is a hardware/resources limitation designed to simplify the task of coding the back end of the site, but it would be nice if these limits were actually a matter of public record, e.g. under 'What are tags?'