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I’ve been thinking about what to do with my blog in 2025. I know I want to post more on it, but I’ve been wondering how to make it more… something. I thought about restyling or changing blog platform (still static generation), but nothing appealed to me.
Then I read this, about “digital gardens”: https://armstrong.is/miscellaneous/digital-gardening
I think that’s it. I don’t want a blog at all, newness doesn’t matter, I want a place to publicly share helpful content as effectively as possible
Helpfully, about 18 months ago I discovered Mkdocs, which I used for my SUDS Pro documentation (https://olddoorways.com/sudspro/docs/) and really, really liked. However it’s designed for docs not blogs really, so I kind of mentally ruled it out as a place for my blog. But that’s daft! If I think of my blog as more of a collection of categorised information, not as a date-driven update stream, it makes far more sense.
So I think I’m going to migrate all my most useful content across to mkdocs, with a nice index and perhaps a “recently updated” section, and stop thinking of my website as a blog at all. The whole point is that this information is not fleeting like social media, so why should it be organised like that, primarily date indexed? It makes no sense. How has it taken me so long to realise that? 
@sinbad I’ve been thinking about restarting my blog and have the same desire. The best I came up with was “more pages and fewer posts” (in Wordpress terminology).
Are you still using Obsidian? Have you tried their site generator?
@jkaniarz I haven’t tried Obsidian’s generator, I’m not sure I’d want to use it for that. I really like mkdocs for published structured content, it’s real nice.
@sinbad Nice, "digital garden" is a neat term. And like that other article says, that used to be the norm!
I never went away from a hierarchically organized website myself (despite a blog side-offering). I think I've always been in the digital garden mindset and I always had trouble getting any kind of overview on other people's blog-centric sites.