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I don't mean to seem abrupt, but I'm not sure what is so interesting about this press release.

n8cpdx 3y ago
From the early days Vox and sites like Polygon and TheVerge were pretty open and proud about their custom CMS and publishing platform. It is pretty surprising to see them abandon Chorus. Also interesting that they think Coral, a tolerable-at-best comments platform, is appealing for other customers. A glimpse at the recent history of Chorus as a stand-alone product: https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus
- apple4ever 3y ago
  Coral ruined so many good sports blogs on SBNation.
- vxNsr 3y ago
  Yea, I was initially thinking they were dropping their CMS in favor of WP, but it looks more like the partnership is more about selling Vox tech on WP’s platform.
  - claudiulodro 3y ago
    No, see the earlier Axios article: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus > Details: Vox Media will move its own websites off of Chorus and into WordPress VIP, the enterprise arm of the 20-year-old CMS company.
    - vxNsr 3y ago
      Oh wow, their tech stack is a little confusing then, they’ll be using WP for CMS and duet for the actual publishing. But isn’t WP kinda terrible as a pure CMS, like the whole power is that you get an easy barebones cms with a really powerful front end… at least that’s how I see it.
      - claudiulodro 3y ago
        I'm biased[0], but, no, there are hundreds of news organizations using WordPress for publishing. It's the industry standard. [0] https://newspack.com/ https://newspack.com/
- celdon25 3y ago
  Still doesn't seem interesting. Companies change over time, with turnover and all. The people that were involved with those early decisions are likely not there anymore, and that's one of any possible reasons behind such a priority shift...
cavisne 3y ago
There was a period (roughly the second term of Obama) where tech/media/politics was very intertwined. People moved from media to the Obama admin, which had a close relationship with big tech, and then onto leadership positions in big tech. Vox was the pinnacle of this, a very technocratic liberal publication which raised a lot of money telling investors it was a tech company (hence the focus on the CMS). This broke down after the 2016 election as the media blamed the tech industry for the election result (leading the NYT to set a editorial policy that tech must be covered in a negative light), and also had to focus on ideology over technocracy (which is why the wonkier people at Vox got slowly pushed out). The gap between politics and tech also grew as there was no path from the Trump admin to tech leadership (or vice versa). Meanwhile youtube & twitter grew, making big media less and less relevant. So this is an interesting if expected outcome as Vox has slowly dwindled in value.

From the early days Vox and sites like Polygon and TheVerge were pretty open and proud about their custom CMS and publishing platform. It is pretty surprising to see them abandon Chorus. Also interesting that they think Coral, a tolerable-at-best comments platform, is appealing for other customers. A glimpse at the recent history of Chorus as a stand-alone product: https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus

apple4ever 3y ago
Coral ruined so many good sports blogs on SBNation.
vxNsr 3y ago
Yea, I was initially thinking they were dropping their CMS in favor of WP, but it looks more like the partnership is more about selling Vox tech on WP’s platform.
- claudiulodro 3y ago
  No, see the earlier Axios article: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus > Details: Vox Media will move its own websites off of Chorus and into WordPress VIP, the enterprise arm of the 20-year-old CMS company.
  - vxNsr 3y ago
    Oh wow, their tech stack is a little confusing then, they’ll be using WP for CMS and duet for the actual publishing. But isn’t WP kinda terrible as a pure CMS, like the whole power is that you get an easy barebones cms with a really powerful front end… at least that’s how I see it.
    - claudiulodro 3y ago
      I'm biased[0], but, no, there are hundreds of news organizations using WordPress for publishing. It's the industry standard. [0] https://newspack.com/ https://newspack.com/
celdon25 3y ago
Still doesn't seem interesting. Companies change over time, with turnover and all. The people that were involved with those early decisions are likely not there anymore, and that's one of any possible reasons behind such a priority shift...

cavisne 3y ago

There was a period (roughly the second term of Obama) where tech/media/politics was very intertwined. People moved from media to the Obama admin, which had a close relationship with big tech, and then onto leadership positions in big tech. Vox was the pinnacle of this, a very technocratic liberal publication which raised a lot of money telling investors it was a tech company (hence the focus on the CMS). This broke down after the 2016 election as the media blamed the tech industry for the election result (leading the NYT to set a editorial policy that tech must be covered in a negative light), and also had to focus on ideology over technocracy (which is why the wonkier people at Vox got slowly pushed out). The gap between politics and tech also grew as there was no path from the Trump admin to tech leadership (or vice versa). Meanwhile youtube & twitter grew, making big media less and less relevant. So this is an interesting if expected outcome as Vox has slowly dwindled in value.