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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? 😮

  • @[email protected]English
    32•21 days 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.

    • Flamekebab
      6•21 days ago

      Same boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?

      • @[email protected]English
        5•21 days ago

        I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.

    • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
      5•21 days ago

      You’re not alone, I’ve still got clients with WP sites and it feels more and more patchworky every time I use it. The vulnerabilities may keep me up at night, but it would take a ton of effort to move them over, and my clients certainly don’t want to pay for that.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•20 days ago

        I see this all the time. People complain about WP but think the alternatives are better, when they’re just trading problems for others.

        WP core is stable AF. I’ve shared in many prior comments how I spend so many more dev hours fixing other CMSes over WP.

        And if you don’t even need a CMS, fuck it all and switch to static hosting and markdown.

        • AmbiguousPropsEnglish
          2•20 days ago

          Oh yeah, for sure. Joomla still haunts my dreams.

          All of my own sites are static because it’s easy for me to modify. But my clients need something a bit more user friendly, unfortunately.