the snag... and the consequences

I asked Google AI how many separate blogs I can host on a single Squarespace site, and this is the answer I got:

In Squarespace, you can create multiple blogs within a single website, according to SEOSpace. There's no limit to the number of blog pages you can create on your website. However, it's worth noting that Squarespace suggests a maximum of 400 pages (including blog pages and other page types) per website for optimal performance and loading speed.

This means that while you can create many blog pages, the total number of pages on your site, including all your blog pages and other content, shouldn't ideally exceed 400 for the best user experience.

Each website you create under a single Squarespace account will require its own separate subscription, says SEOSpace.

For managing multiple blogs effectively on one website, utilizing categories and tags to organize your content is highly recommended. This allows you to filter and display specific blog posts on different sections of your site, making it easier for visitors to find the content they are interested in.

So I guess it's time for some cold, hard reality.

This blog, the Hairy Chasms, has way, way, way more than 400 pages' worth of posts after decades of blogging. And my seven in-Korea walk blogs (Kevin's Walk 2 onward; the first Kevin's Walk was about trying to walk across America, then about mom's brain cancer), which include pre-walk posts and postmortem posts, together probably total close to 400 pages' worth of posts, if not more. Add the first Kevin's Walk blog to that, and the total is also way more than 400 pages.

Conclusion: migrating my old blogs over to Squarespace will not be worth the trouble, especially if this means porting over all the pictures and video. It's too much, and based on the above info, I'd have to subscribe to several Squarespace websites. 

It's therefore not worth my time to migrate everything over. I'm going to leave all of my blogs right here, and my Squarespace blog will be a wholly new thing.

Coming to this conclusion is both sad and a relief. It's a relief because this means much less work for me (e.g., I won't have to deal with any migration-related formatting questions, nor will I have to re-upload videos and images), but it's sad because I feel as if I'm abandoning these blogs. I'll keep watch over them, though, and try to keep them active—at least the main blog—by scheduling occasional posts. Google/Blogspot's policy is apparently to delete accounts, not individual blogs, that have been inactive for more than two years, which is why old walk blogs like Kevins' Walk and Kevin's Walk 2 remain active. So maintaining my Blogspot/Blogger presence shouldn't require much effort.