Uma possibilidade que não envolve algoritmos é apenas agrupar os títulos dos posts por categorias direto na página principal como nesse exemplo do blog de Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/

Ela agrupa os posts em categorias ordenado por data, da mais atual para as mais antigas. O primeiro grupo é o dos últimos 10 posts. Em seguida ela agrupa por categorias específicas, ex: "Cool computer tools / features / ideas".

Achei bem interessante a forma dela organizar. Quem acessa pela primeira vez o blog tem ao mesmo tempo chance de ver os posts mais atuais, como também ver todos os outros tópicos que ela se dedica, tudo na página principal. Pode pesquisar palavras-chave com um simples ctrl+f.

It seems medium.com is trying to tackle exactly this problem.

I've come to the same conclusion as soon as blogs started to pop up and you'll noticed I never called my own site a "blog". I try to always keep my articles up-to-date and will try to organize them in topics. I'm not much successful on it yet but I must confess I don't spend much time on my site and it is certainly an easier task for me since I don't have that many articles as you do :)

There's an issue with my approach though that I'm not sure how to approach... For instance, a while ago I posted an article comparing Grails to Rails that is now mostly outdated since Grails 2 has been released. But if I simply update the article, then all current comments will make no sense as the article would simply be rewritten. My current plan (I don't have a plan to write an updated article on the subject yet, but just to exemplify) is to change the article to point out in the header that it is outdated and kept only due to the comments and point the reader out to the newest article on the subject. Anyway, I'd also love suggestions on how to organize my site's (any site actually) contents.

Akita, the first idea that came in my mind was: order the content (posts) by relevance instead of the cronological way. But, how can you calculate that?

1st sugestion: order by the sum of the number of comments, twitter shares and likes/shares on facebook.

2sd sugestion: order just by the number of comments because 7 years ago we did not have twitter and facebook.

3rd sugestion: order by the number of pageviews in the last 3 months + number of comments in the last 3 months.

I know those sugestions are not the final ones for this huge problem, but we can try start providing multiple ways to sort the blog content (posts) based in those ideas initially.

It is like we already have on facebook today: the user can choose to sort his timeline by Top stories (the default one) or by the most recent (the old and hated cronological way).

But, instead of have just Top stories being sorted by some magical algorithm let's allow the user choose what is TOP or the most relevant way for him providing some suggestions. Got it?

Sim entendi, é o modelo "Digg" de ranking ajustado. Ainda não resolve o problema pois da mesma forma que o Digg ele apenas "retarda" algumas notícias de irem pra paginação. O problema de "discoverability" imagino que melhore com algum tipo de arquitetura de informação aliado a alguma novidade de design de interação e então algum algoritmo estatístico de relevância. Estou chegando à conclusão que talvez "compilações" ajudem mais neste momento.

É dessas compilações que saem muitos dos ebooks de auto-publicação e se colocar isso numa clube autores da vida seria uma forma de monetizar o long tail.

Have you ever thought of choosing some of your favorite articles and making them available for offline reading as an e-book? Some bloggers, like Jeff Atwood, who also has lots of content, have been doing this.

I know it isn't a "real" solution, since it has nothing to do with the blog structure itself, and it also requires some effort. But it is a way to provide new users valuable content in a nice format.

Yes, indeed I have thought of compiling a book, I do have enough material to do that. I'll probably do it sometime around this year. In the meantime I am trying to see if there's any other good way to present this blog material in a better structure.

Yes, but it's the same as adding categories, adding tags. How do you structure and organize thousands of posts in a meaningful way that makes it easy to explore? Maybe I'm lacking a better definition of what "exploring" means and what's important to newcomers.