big_huge_blathes raze sometimes i wonder: how big can a blathe get before blather says, "i wash my hands of thee?" in the grand scheme of things, html files don't take up much space. as it stands right now, there are 24,440 red blathes (plus one once this goes live). their combined weight is less than 500 megabytes. as far as i can tell, the largest blathe of all time is the long-running half_asleep_thoughts, which comes in at a whopping 4.3M. for the sake of comparison, catherine_street is a pretty decent length, and it's only one fifty-sixth (or 1.8%) of that size. the longer a blathe is, the more time it takes for the html to be rebuilt when it's created or added to. this is why writing on, say, dream_dialogue will be instantaneous, but with new_dream_lessons you have to wait a good ten or fifteen seconds for your words to appear. so far, nothing has been so deep and wide that the database can't handle it. i was going to start a new blathe to branch off of half_asleep_thoughts when it hit the ten-year mark, just to be safe. but i like the idea of all those brain blips living together in one place. i guess we'll let it ride. see how it all shakes out. 240802 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I'm curious - for storage space, is the number of entries more important or the amount of text? For instance, catherine_street has a number of separate entries, but I'm sure many blathes have more text. At least for non-internet files like Word documents, it seems that storage for formatting can take more "space" than the text itself, as opposed to pdfs, where it's more image of the file that's stored. If that makes sense. I'm not an expert on these things. 240803 ... raze i'm curious too, and fascinated by all of this stuff, even if i don't always understand how or why it works. and that makes a lot of sense — maybe in some cases the_size_of_things here has more to do with the number of contributions to a given thing than the sheer number of words. maybe the amount of interlinked content is also a factor. the enduring mysteries of blather... 240803 what's it to you? who go blather from