Tumblr is ditching — or, not less than, suspending — its plan emigrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that additionally means pausing plans of integrating Tumblr into the fediverse.
That information dropped Monday on the Decoder podcast from The Verge. Automattic, which owns Tumblr, introduced final yr it deliberate to maneuver Tumblr‘s backend of its web site to WordPress. However Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg instructed Decoder that concept was on maintain as a result of the corporate determined it wished “to focus as a lot on the issues which are going to be noticeable to customers and that customers are asking for.” That tracks: Altering the backend of a web site is a significant endeavor however one which is not clearly noticeable to most customers.
The seemingly momentary shift away from WordPress may have downstream results. As an illustration, Tumblr would possibly now be slower to affix the fediverse, which is a community of publishing platforms which are interconnected to be able to make a decentralized social media panorama. In different phrases, your following, follows, and posts migrate throughout all of the platforms.
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Tumblr’s migration to WordPress would’ve made integrating the fediverse simple. That is as a result of WordPress has an ActivityPub plug-in that enables customers to hook up with different platforms on the fediverse. Now that is no extra.
“That may’ve been a free solution to get it,” Mullenweg instructed Decoder. “And in order that was one of many arguments for migrating all the things to WordPress.”
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