It gets increasingly difficult to maintain any project or bureaucracy that grows larger and larger. Frameworks and ideas evolve, and content must stay current and relevant to the world today. At the same time, you do not want to lose your history or everything that made it special. You constantly ask yourself about old content: keep it or dump it? There is no clear answer, though revisions often seem necessary to keep things relevant.

Organization is a nearly impossible task. How do you organize 400 essays, when they have little categorization already? By title and by date are logical choices, but grouping things together can be much more difficult. Life rarely divides into nice ease little categorizes that allow you to split things up in ways that are beneficial. Likewise, design is challenging. You want to keep the site familiar to users, but at the same time you have a look that needs to be refreshed and made modern. You do not want to overload pages with content. There is a constant need to modify and replace the site from scratch but resources are limited and doing that can be nearly impossible. Some rewrites are necessary though to easily permit previously thought up features and to speed up the web site.

Finding time to make the web site happen can be a problem. There are so many different tasks in life, and so many distractions. Where do you find time to write and keep one set part going while not letting another one fall through the cracks? Do you work on Section A at the cost of Section B or Section C? Or do you follow some other process. It is natural to do what feels like the most fun to work at during the current moment, but that comes at a cost to your readers. This ignores the 50 hours a week you spend working, the time you spend driving, the time you spend having fun, or the time with the family. There is little free time to make words appear on the page.

These are the problems that allhewanted.org face today. Many other similar web sites done by a single individual probably face the same problems, as do many much larger bureaucracies. Ideas get old, ideologies change, and the worlds continue to move on even while the old written word stays the same. There is no clear way of prioritizing or designing a web site, so many sites as this one will continue to evolve and continue to have problems. The author can only hope for the best, and give whatever limited resources he has to give up to the site to it.