One of the biggest problems with the migration process (from Blogger to WordPress) is the formatting of many posts (with the improper line breaks) and internal blog links not properly updating the URL to the new domain. That old gaming blog has like well over 1400 posts and like the other blogs I migrated first, has formatting issues and links that are pointing to blogspot.com (requiring manual editing). The URL for postings aren’t the same structure so I cannot do a simple search and replace.
Trying to clean up all of that before making it available represents a lot of hours for little return. Most of the earliest postings are related to Diablo III (a game which is now in maintenance mode), many of those posts having missing images since they were hosted on ImageShack (which eliminated free hosting in 2016), and are posts that are outdated/have way too much missing context anyway since the source/reference is to Battle.net forum posts that no longer exist (due to a major forum change that Blizzard conducted several years ago).
With over 1400 posts (on average taking 3 minutes each to fix, that is approximately 70-80 hours of editing). I’ve been slowly performing some of this over the past month (working from most recent to the oldest). While I have stepped away from gaming in general, I still occasionally play Guild Wars 2 and very rarely now, Genshin Impact. There’s also a few upcoming titles (like Aion 2) that I felt like writing about and therefore wanted to at least have it opened (I don’t want to mix that gaming stuff onto this blog).
