โฒ 198 โผ Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com) submitted 2 years ago* by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments So... if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? ๐ฎ
[โ] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could you elaborate? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] poVoq@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago (3 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [โ] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And despite all that it's likely that the Tumblr backend might be even worse. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] poVoq@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago (3 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [โ] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And despite all that it's likely that the Tumblr backend might be even worse. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And despite all that it's likely that the Tumblr backend might be even worse. permalink fedilink source parent