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We’re not talking about changing Tumblr. We’re not turning Tumblr into WordPress.
This won’t be easy. Tumblr hosts over half a billion blogs. We’re talking about one of the largest technical migrations in internet history. Some people think it’s impossible. But we say, “challenge accepted.”
Nilay Patel on Threads: “And I thought our WordPress migration was complicated”, speaking of The Verge’s recent migration.
Since Automattic acquired Tumblr we’ve made it more efficient, grown its revenue, and worked to improve the platform. But there’s one part of the plan that we haven’t yet started, which is to run T…
Stefan Grund
https://eay.cc/2024/tumblr-will-migrate-all-of-its-half-a-billion-blogs-to-wordpress-on-the-backend/
@eay are they drunk?
@BlackChester Yep. Looks like they don’t even have the people to do it: ma.tt/2024/08/people-wanted/