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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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So... if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 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 18 points 3 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.net 4 points 3 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.