16 · Hiding a series

A series holding one entry from six months ago stands in the navigation on equal terms with one that publishes every other day, and promises a reader something it fails to deliver. Removal would settle it and break addresses along the way — addresses that already live in other people's bookmarks and in search results.

Hence hiding in two strengths. The stronger sweeps a series out of everywhere: the navigation, the list of series, the stream, the feed, the sitemap and the offline bundle. The weaker takes away only the signboard — the series is in no menu and on no list, but its entries keep flowing in the stream and the feed, level with the rest.

In both variants the series' own address works and shows everything it holds. Coming out of hiding is one word struck out: no migration, no change of addresses.