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

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

my thoughts exactly. Who in their sane mind sees WordPress as a solid foundation for anything?

you must be truly desperate to come to me for help.

~~Loki~~ WP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most large publishing companies, the white house and various government departments all use WordPress for their main sites. Its the third party integrations that cause security issues, not the core code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet the third party integrations are pretty much the whole point of WordPress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Indeed, but using poor ones or not keeping them updated is what causes the wrong opinion that WordPress isn't solid.

30% of the most popular 1000 websites are built on WordPress supposedly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, and who is vetting the plugins? How often are unmaintained plugins replaced in those popular websites? How quickly are vulnerabilities patched and applied?

The whole thing is easy to set up, but unlikely to be properly maintained.

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