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
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    849 months ago

    Given how crufty Wordpress is, I don’t even dare to imagine how bad the Tumblr backend must be that this is seen as an improvement by the developers.

    • @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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      219 months ago

      Right? At this point I’m just sticking with WordPress because I can’t be bothered to migrate a bunch of sites off of it. Every year for the past decade it’s felt jankier. Tumblr’s backend has to be a dumpster fire for this to seem like a good idea.

      My criticism aside, WP still has the convenience factor of being the open source web platform that has a plugin for just about any need. Whether those plugins are gonna break for site or introduce interesting new vulnerabilities is a different discussion.

    • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      69 months ago

      It makes sense.

      Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    339 months ago

    Remember when Verizon paid a billion dollars to ruin Tumblr and get a fraction of that back for it?

  • @RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Wordpress federation is pretty one directional, you can follow a blog from mastodon, but you can’t use your blog to follow other people.

      • @RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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        39 months ago

        Interesting, I didn’t realise that.

        However I assume they will be migrating them to wordpress.com, which is their proprietary hosted solution, as opposed to wordpress.org, which is the open source software. Plugins don’t work on wordpress.com free accounts, only paid ones. I believe outward federation is integrated into .com though.

      • Venia Silente
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        19 months ago

        By being moved to the main Wordpress branch, where everything has been known to be hackable since 1999, rather than staying in Tumbr’s however-modified branch where probably some exploits don’t work or have unexpected results.

  • arthurpizza
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    49 months ago

    I believe there is already plans in the timeline to bring Tumblr to the fediverse.