Something we struggle with all the time at work is creating simpler solutions. We are often thinking about production release 4.5 when we should be prototyping version 0.1 beta. If a problem can be solved using a lower tech solution do it. If more complexity becomes necessary it will evolve, don't push it.
As Jfred will tell you after his ever so productive day at work, it is important to periodically test one's working assumptions while solving a problem. One of my assumptions was that my blogger archives should be monthly. Given the set of data (going into my 4th year of posts) this seems like the appropriate frequency, but that is discounting the fact that monthly archives are fucking useless. You can never find anything in them. I always end up using google's "search this site," and so...
The final solution to my collapsing of recent posts problem will be, I hope, to simply collapse the posts and leave the anchor events alone. The links will take you to the archive of that post. My reason against this had previously been that a monthly archive is a very large page to load. I will solve that be changing the archives to Weekly or even Daily. The main archive page will then be obscenely long, but that doesn't matter because it's useless anyway. I will put one of those google "search this site" forms at the top and hope people figure it out. I will still have to alter the JavaScript to not collapse the archive pages, and that should do it.
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