Possible to have too many posts in a folder?

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Hi,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to have too many posts in a folder eventually. And if so, how can they be broken out?

Context: I’m using Jekyll as a daily journal (after leaving Day One) and am making 3-5 posts per day. They are all in the /journal/_posts/ folder. I have some different tags set up to help me slice and dice when reading/searching. After a few years of doing this I now have 800 md files in that directory.

Thinking about future-proofing here, is this going to be a problem ever? And if so, is there a better way to organize things? Like pulling out posts for a certain year into some kind of subdirectory?

Thanks!

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Don’t know that it could ever be a proble, but Yes, you could organize that.
for example:
/journal/2017/_posts/2017-05-25-A-Serious-Game-Night.md
and
/journal/2016/02/_posts/2016-02-24-Canyon-Hike.md

Depending on how you have your permalink set up you might see something like
yoursite.com/journal/2017/2017/05/25/A-Serious-Game-Night/
and
yoursite.com/journal/2016/02/2016/02/24/Canyon-Hike/

So you might want to make those prettier.

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I organize my posts in folders by year and then by month. I think I have pretty permalinks configured, so when the site builds, the posts get flattened into the root directory rather than remaining in the source folder structure.

4

I wouldn’t worry too much about running into any number limits. I once had a project that contained a collection with 70,000+ files (have since moved to running from the _data folder with no issues as well).

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with 70,000+ files, how much time for jekyll to build?