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Go for it
I did categories there for a time. Had a hashtag-oriented list on /about or whatever it was. #tech, #writing, et al
I lost interest in hashtags as fast as I lot interest in "regular" tags for a post when I blogged on WordPress years before. It was mandated by the guy who owned the blog, as they had tags/categories utilized before I worked there, so after hammering through a post, it was tediously typing in the box "this post is about THIS" "this post is about THAT" so a handful of whoever can save a half second find the category they wanted to read whenever they would visit.
Anyway
I'm not "against" tags, I'm just against DOING them, lol
I'm need seeing a need for hashtags in what I'm going. I simply have five posts whose titles are:
- About
- Life
- Spiritual
- Whatever
- Commentary
- Politics
and (for now) intend to simply reuse them by editing them as the writing spirit moves. And they'll stay in that order because for free accounts ordering is based on initial publish date. (Perhaps saying "there will always be only those six posts in the same order in the blog listing" clarifies?)
I do attempt to give a better picture of when a post has changed by putting the likes of this at the top of each:
<pre><code>2024-09-11 11:20:36 Wednesday <- 2024-09-11 10:10:31 Wednesday</code</pre>
which indicates an update (most recent date on left). It's fairly easy to update for what it provides.
I'll likely abandon it by the end of the week given free blogs aren't listed in the read.write.as feed, so there's no hope of anyone discovering it. But it was just a sort of nostalgically fun thing.
It was somewhat encouraging (given beefs I had with write.as in the past) that the API seemed to work for me given the "curl" invocations they recommend. I had over 1800 posts to delete, and that would have been impossible manually. But one API call gave me some kind of overall authentication token, which I then used to make another API call getting all the post id's, and then passed the authentication token and post id's to another API call to accomplish all the post deletions.