Starting to clean things up and Swedish landing pages might be in the future...

As the Invision Community version 5 is stabilizing I am moving my attention towards cleaning things up. I have mapped all old databases and I will begin removing those. I have also started to work on the new tags system, and yesterday I added quite a few new tags and deleted a few. I will continue this work, and I am also looking into how to best produce Swedish content for marketing purposes.

A lot of fun things are happening behind the scenes right now, and I am working on cleaning things up and "killing my darlings" when it comes to databases. With the new way Invision Community is handling databases it is no longer possible to have a database that is not connected to a page, which makes having internal databases a bit tricky. I can get around this with some database magic, but I would prefer not to have to hack things, but it is what it is. Most of the databases though are not being used, or have very little content, so I plan to delete those databases, after I have saved the content if it is something I want to keep.

When it comes to Articles I will do some cleaning there to make it more useful for the users. I have been using it for thoughts and articles with little consideration of the difference. It is time to change that and also to consider what value the articles are actually providing. Articles should have a value and if they don't, then they should be moved to my personal blog. I will also make sure that I publish at least one article every month, so I will start planning topics for 2025.

I also realized that as I will focus a lot on the Swedish market as part of my new job. This means that since this site is in English, I need some strategy for making Swedish content. I have just purchased a few domain names for this purpose, and I'll see how I can best use this for promotional purposes. I will need to sit down and consider the best strategy for this, but I have a few ideas...

When it comes to tags I have set up a strategic list of what tags I want to start with, and it is a fairly extensive list. I have started to create these tags and I will continue to do that for a few weeks. I will also go over all content, which is quite a lot of content, and re-tag content. I will also go over content in general to see just what kind of content I have. Some content I want to remove and some content I want to elevate with new graphics and some touch up. Some content I also want to re-publish or move to pair it with the content it should be. This means that some blog posts might become an article and some articles might become blog posts.

There are a lot of things to be done, but much of this is behind the scenes, so things might seem a bit slow for you. So just be patient and you will see things in time :)

Slow and steady wins the race.