This will be the final post of blog.NOVALISTIC before the new site launches. Everything below this that still exists after the post purge will hopefully continue to be relevant (if it’s supposed to be), but by then it’ll be time to look forward to new things. Thanks for the almost 3 years of BoltPress, everyone!

EDIT [3/13]: I won’t be importing comments just yet, but feel free to start leaving new comments for the new blog.NOVALISTIC posts!

This final week will see plenty of preparatory efforts to usher in the launch of the new NOVALISTIC.

One big change you’ll see to blog.NOVALISTIC is the biggest post purge ever, at least for this blog anyway. In fact, it’s so huge that I’ve divided it into three separate phases. I thought of keeping this a secret, but since the last phase will be the most visible bout of change yet won’t take place till the site relaunch, I’ve decided to just share with you how I’ll carry this out.

I estimate about half the posts of this current blog will be completely gone by the end of the purge. That’s a lot, but don’t worry too much: many of my past posts have been tweet-quality crap.

Phase 1

In the first phase, I’ll set up a new WordPress installation elsewhere, along with a fresh new set of database tables. That’s right, my post purge is so huge I have to essentially start over, but not quite from scratch! Once that’s done it’s time to start manually importing posts, by way of copy & paste, from here that I want to keep, and perhaps take a similar opportunity to revise them a little.

As the WordPress installation is a completely separate entity from the current blog.NOVALISTIC, you won’t see anything change.

Phase 2

In the second phase, I’m still in the separate installation but I’ll begin recategorizing the posts I import during the first phase, fixing broken links and all around making sure the blog will work fine by itself once I move it to its permanent place. I’ll also be testing a lot of other new things here!

Phase 3

NOVALISTIC 4.0 “Sarathos” will be launched on Sunday (woohoo!) and this is when the third and final phase of the post purge will come in. The databases will be essentially swapped and you’ll see changes right away, all over this blog.

I’ll also start to fix problems here if any crop up, but other than that this will pretty much finalize the content revamp of the official blog of the new NOVALISTIC.