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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 150 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Not as drastic as the headline makes it out to be, or at least so they claim.

“We acquired Tumblr to benefit from its differences and strengths, not to water it down. We love Tumblr’s streamlined posting experience and its current product direction,” the post explained. “We’re not changing that. We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside,” it noted.

We'll see how that actually works out. Tumblr’s backend has always seemed rather... makeshift, so I'm curious to see how they manage to do that. Given Tumblr’s technical eccentricities, a backend migration could probably do a lot of good for the functionality of the site, if done properly. I have my doubts that WordPress' engineers will be given the time and resources to do a full overhaul/refactor though, so I'm fully expecting even more janky, barely functional code stapling the two systems together.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 67 points 2 months ago (16 children)

WordPress is built on decades of hacky code, probably more so than Tumblr. I would be shocked if this is an improvement.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not as familiar with WordPress, but if that's the case, yeah, I don't have high hopes for this going well...

[–] Woovie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Every comment in this thread might as well be hearsay. I wouldn’t take it too seriously. I think I’ll trust the corporation that runs wordpress.com and maintains the open source WordPress project instead to know what they’re doing with WordPress.

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