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Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has

So… if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

  • poVoq
    English
    30•19 days ago

    Wordpress is a pile of decades old php code* that is held together with string and tape pretty much.

    *php isn’t the problem itself, modern php is actually pretty nice.

    • Aatube
      18•19 days ago

      I’ll take your word for it. Apparently tumblr and WordPress (and WordPress.com) are owned by the same company, so this change would make sense to reduce maintenance workload.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•19 days ago

      WordPress core is pretty wild. But modern WordPress isn’t working purely in that. The latest WP uses PHP primarily as a backend, and modern JS as a frontend and passing data through filters->DB.

      I won’t call it elegant. But it’s not the PHP experience from five years ago.

    • Draconic NEOEnglish
      3•19 days ago

      And despite all that it’s likely that the Tumblr backend might be even worse.