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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@slrpnk.netEnglish
      301·
      2 months 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@kbin.melroy.org
        17·
        2 months 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.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 months 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.