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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 t
by 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 agoCoral ruined so many good sports blogs on SBNation.
- vxNsr 3y agoYea, 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 agoNo, 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 agoOh 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 agoI'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 agoStill 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...