Local man hits 100-post limit

An odd Blogger problem confounded me: I happened to notice that a March 1 post with the WPA tax photograph of James P. Johnson’s house was missing from the monthly archive in the Blogger sidebar. I asked about the problem in the Blogger Help Community and tried various suggestions offered there. (Thanks, Vaishnav.) But nothing changed. The only fix I could hit on: changing the post’s date from March 1 to February 28. But if changed back to March 1, nothing in the sidebar.

What had happened: I had run up against a limit for the monthly archive list. Adam, a Google Product Expert on all things Blogger, explained:

It turns out there is a limit of 100 posts per month in the archive (not on the blog).

In your honor (not kidding), that will be increased to 128 posts per month. That won’t be in effect right away: maybe next week sometime.

Thanks for bringing this up, and for being a good sport about this.

As I wrote back, I like the idea of 128 — appropriate for anything having to do with computers. My first computer, an Apple //c, had 128KB of RAM.

Thanks, Adam, and thanks to Blogger/Google for increasing the archive limit.

[The limit must be relatively recent: the May and October 2020 archives for OCA each show 102 posts.]