Weblogs are meant to be read in descending order from the most recent posts (or towards the top) to the oldest (or way on the bottom).
In order to avoid annoying your readers, set your `Front page display` as your `Latest posts`. As per a `Forum` contributor of WordPress.com, he mentioned setting the `blog pages at most` to three (3), which is what I did for my weblog.
Consideration is better than hunting down for archives, which really serves the truly nosy readers or the administrator, who wants to copy/past (or export) their work to another server or external drive somewhere that could be easily retrieved for later viewing.
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