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~~Wait wtf. Automattic was sold in a fire sale?
When? Why? How?
They were not making money? I thought they had WordPress.com - that should be making pretty good right? Or paid plugins like jetpack - those gotta be making money.
How did this happen that they got sold in fire sale?~~
Edit oh. Ive read it wrong. Tumblr was sold in a fire sale, okok. Yeah I could see that.
So much WordPress hate but I survived off making WordPress sites out of college. The new built in site theme editor is great. No more hacky plugins.
Yeah it was a nice tool for making sites fast. I loved using it but haven't in a very long time. I hope it's still nice to work with like it was before. Even with PHP it wasn't that bad of an experience lol.
The overuse of plugins is what made it a mess. But you need less and less nowadays!
Tumblr is such an old technology
Ah yes, WordPress, renowned for it's robust social engagement tools.
It's the kind of decision you announce over Zoom so people don't riot
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Hopefully they're planning on using that to integrate with the Fediverse.
Neocities already has its own internal engagement stuff (with people following each other, commenting on updates etc), it probably wouldn't be too hard to throw that into ActivityPub.
Just like wordpress though neoticies is much more "here is my stuff, browse through it" oriented than tumblr, which is at least 70% towards twitteresque "here's a firehose of different stuff of different people please make comments and retweet every image".
Hopefully they’ll at least use Bedrock and not default Wordpress.
Or modify it themselves.
Who knows what they use under the hood but WordPress architecture is horrible
Or use a shitload of insecure plugins for wp to do what it wasn't made for.
Don’t envy anyone involved in this.. it’s a lot of work
...and the WordPress codebase is utterly horrible. I don't envy them at all.
I don’t know what you mean? How could a codebase so often patched for exploits and problems be so horrible, surely it’s a shining example of all that is good with the internet? ;-)
I mean it's probably the codebase most targeted, so it makes sense
I was supporting a WordPress site and we've had issues getting blacklisted by Internet providers because some WP scripts were in the malware database (local file matching WP github exactly). What a nightmare.
They summarised the history of Tumblr, but failed to mention how they lost 3 quarters of their users by banning porn?
Like, two owners ago. Wordpress took Tumblr off Verizon's hands for $3 million USD, ~six years after Yahoo! bought it for $1.1 billion.
Where the fuck does yahoo even get money from to do this kind of shit at this point?
yahoo
Nowadays, I don't know that they could, but more than a decade ago they still had enough mail and search users to be somewhat relevant, and Marissa Meyer had just taken over after she left Google. There was a real thought that Yahoo! could so something new. It obviously didn't pan out, but for a hot minute, people really talked about Yahoo!
Rich people can always get money
The people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse
In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or ~~a ponzi scheme~~ inflated stocks.
