Working on the Sports Card Blogroll After All of These Years

It's been a full week since I've returned to this humble, little blog. I haven't forgotten my other little piece of the interwebs, The Sports Card Blogroll.

Even when I was on hiatus, I would still get emails from people asking if they would add their blogs to the site. I would say sure, and in the beginning, it wasn't an issue. But I'd say by 2021 or so, I was having problems adding blogs to the site. I guess Blogger was having problems as the existing templates were no longer working properly and I couldn't add new sites to any of the categories. I would spend days trying to figure it out, but just was having trouble and it drove me nuts. So with everything else with my blogging involvement, I just stopped. For those who reached out and never saw their site on the roll, I am truly sorry.

When I came back, I noticed that a lot has changed with how Blogger functions, from how to compose blog posts to how to add and remove links in the layout. It looks like the new features are working and I started thinking about the big blogroll again. Maybe it's time to revisit it and start removing many of the long, inactive blogs.

I'll be honest, I'm scared, and I'm wondering if it's a fool's errand.

The Trading Card Database (boy I've mentioned them a lot lately), has a section featuring many Hobby blogs. The thing is that even long inactive blogs are still featured. So for six years, for example, the last post I wrote was still up on the site, which probably explains why it received over 10,000 views.

On the first post that I wrote when I announced the creation of the SCBR, I said, "I want to keep as many active blogs on here as possible. There are a number of blogs on other blogrolls that are now either inactive or have not been used in more than six months. If a blog has not been used since...the site will be removed." I guess I'm afraid to see how many I'll have to remove.

There are currently 203 blogs on the site. I know that many of the bloggers who were active at the time I left have moved on to other ventures and are no longer active on their own sites. It will be sad to see them go. However, I do hope to add sites that have thrived in my absence and see the number of blogs on the site grow. Maybe we will never see the number come back to what it was during the blogging heydey of the late 2000's through mid 2010's, but what will remain, I hope, will keep the Hobby Blogging Community going into the next decade and beyond.

If you, or someone you know, has a blog that you would like to have added to the Sports Card Blogroll, please feel free to reach out to me at bdj610@hotmail.com.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama