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Ewww
Seeing how much CPU and memory is using a single WordPress blog, i wonder how much it will cost to host half a billion WordPress blogs
Most of them probably get 0 visits or close to it.
My guess is it scales a lot more efficiently the more you add. Still probably costs a lot though.
The face I made when I read that title and it was not good.
Wordpress is just the worst
The open-source software from WordPress.org is great for blogs. It becomes the worst when you try it make it do more than that. Even worse is WordPress.com which is very different and uses a very locked-down and restricted proprietary version of the WordPress software. They charge $25/mo for the tier that lets you add custom CSS.
Additionally, Automattic gets a free pass of violating the WordPress terms of use for the WordPress name and logo to intentionally trick people into thinking the paid platform at WordPress.com is the same as the free and open-source software from WordPress.org. They get to leverage the non-profit’s name and likeness and gets preferential treatment to funnel business to their for-profit company.
Wow. For real, I always just assumed that .com was the commercial arm of .org. Holy shit.
Completely separate entities besides the owner being the same.
I think you misunderstood the comment you are replying to.
The WordPress Foundation does not have the same owner as WordPress.com.
Matt Mullenweg effectively is the ‘owner’ of both, yes. Though the term ‘owner’ isn’t necessarily precise, it effectively conveys the idea.
They summarised the history of Tumblr, but failed to mention how they lost 3 quarters of their users by banning porn?
Like, two owners ago. Wordpress took Tumblr off Verizon’s hands for $3 million USD, ~six years after Yahoo! bought it for $1.1 billion.
Where the fuck does yahoo even get money from to do this kind of shit at this point?
Rich people can always get money
The people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse
In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or
a ponzi schemeinflated stocks.
yahoo
Nowadays, I don’t know that they could, but more than a decade ago they still had enough mail and search users to be somewhat relevant, and Marissa Meyer had just taken over after she left Google. There was a real thought that Yahoo! could so something new. It obviously didn’t pan out, but for a hot minute, people really talked about Yahoo!
Not as drastic as the headline makes it out to be, or at least so they claim.
“We acquired Tumblr to benefit from its differences and strengths, not to water it down. We love Tumblr’s streamlined posting experience and its current product direction,” the post explained. “We’re not changing that. We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside,” it noted.
We’ll see how that actually works out. Tumblr’s backend has always seemed rather… makeshift, so I’m curious to see how they manage to do that. Given Tumblr’s technical eccentricities, a backend migration could probably do a lot of good for the functionality of the site, if done properly. I have my doubts that WordPress’ engineers will be given the time and resources to do a full overhaul/refactor though, so I’m fully expecting even more janky, barely functional code stapling the two systems together.
Wordpress supports activitypub tho, so that could be cool if they want it to be.
I read a couple of Tumblr blogs. If I could follow them from Mastodon instead I could delete that app entirely.
Use rss feeds maybe? Adding
/rssto a tumblr blog’s url (in the x.tumblr.com format) shows an rss feedI’ll believe it when I see it.
Automattic says the move to WordPress will have its advantages, as it will make it easier to share the company’s work across the two platforms.
I foresee no issues
wtf i don’t want this i want the blog ive had for a decade on tumblr
They’re not actually going to change anything you can notice. I guess they’re just changing the back end for… Reasons
Hopefully they’ll at least use Bedrock and not default Wordpress.
Or modify it themselves.
Or use a shitload of plugins for wp to do what it wasn’t made for.
Don’t envy anyone involved in this… it’s a lot of work
…and the WordPress codebase is utterly horrible. I don’t envy them at all.
I don’t know what you mean? How could a codebase so often patched for exploits and problems be so horrible, surely it’s a shining example of all that is good with the internet? ;-)
I mean it’s probably the codebase most targeted, so it makes sense
I was supporting a WordPress site and we’ve had issues getting blacklisted by Internet providers because some WP scripts were in the malware database (local file matching WP github exactly). What a nightmare.
Tumblr is such an old technology
So much WordPress hate but I survived off making WordPress sites out of college. The new built in site theme editor is great. No more hacky plugins.
~~Wait wtf. Automattic was sold in a fire sale?
When? Why? How?They were not making money? I thought they had WordPress.com - that should be making pretty good right? Or paid plugins like jetpack - those gotta be making money.
How did this happen that they got sold in fire sale?~~Edit oh. Ive read it wrong. Tumblr was sold in a fire sale, okok. Yeah I could see that.
