When Purism adds a new article on their main website, one of us members usually then posts it here in the forums for discussion, and often titles it as “New Post: xxx xxxxx xxxxx.”
“New Post” doesn’t age particularly well, as it soon transitions to being an “old post,” before then becoming a “very old post.” We should come up with a new tag to use for these articles.
“Purism Post”?
Or “Purism Article?”
Or “Purism Blog Article”?
I’ve been stewing over this for years, but always either didn’t have time or struggled over how to word a complaint/recommendation.
While we are at it, I quickly became annoyed over:
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people’s privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
I think I know why that happens, but after seeing it happen several times without any clue to the actual content of the post it is a complete waste of screen real estate.
I understand that it would be a time and effort burden to customize whatever tag or file this comes from for each post, but even just copying the first 1 to 3 sentences of the post would be much better than the current situation.
At a minimum, either as a temporary stopgap or even somewhat permanently, stop using “one box” formatting unless somewhat not useless content will show up in the box.
I have started to prefer that myself (i.e. not using it), which is why I now usually prevent it by including the link on the same line as some of my own text. Sometimes using one-box results in a cross-site tracker becoming activated.
And these days I especially dislike seeing gaping wormholes to GoogleTube. 
(Although people are, of course, free to post them if they’re not bothered.)
Trudat.
Other possibilities
“Post”
“Blog”
or
introduce a new category specifically for blog posts and then no prefix in the title is needed at all. That would free up the Announcements category to be specifically for random “announcements” that may need forum user attention with higher priority than a blog post, which a forum user is more readily free to read or not to read.
Yes, for a while there I was overriding the default formatting but then I got lazy / time poor. I agree with you that the one-box formatting would be better if it behaved differently. I don’t know what the range of possible behaviours is and I don’t have access to change it - so it would need someone from Purism to chime in.
Personally, I use the RSS feed to get the blog posts (where the issue that you highlight does not apply anyway) so …
… maybe RSS is an option for you.
Or the labour-intensive option … when the topic is created it really is a “new post” but after a week? a month? come back to it and edit the topic title to remove “new”? Obviously I can do that now, retrospectively, if people generally want that option.
Yes it is like old youtube videos starting with the Subject line “Just happening now …”