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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
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[–] reddig33 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds stupid. I wonder if this makes it easier to sell the content to AI scrapers?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It makes sense that they'd want to move it to a single codebase rather than have both Wordpress code and Tumblr code in the same organization.

Anyone else old enough to remember when Wordpress was called b2? Good times.

[–] T156 4 points 2 months ago

Tumblr's codebase is also both quite old and infamously terrible, even if it's from being shuffled around companies a bunch.

Centralising its backend into one platform doesn't like too bad of an idea.