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I don’t understand why you would migrate anything to Wordpress. Wordpress, to me, seems like the platform you start on. Easy to get up and running. But when y

by h_tbob 2y ago

I don’t understand why you would migrate anything to Wordpress. Wordpress, to me, seems like the platform you start on. Easy to get up and running. But when you get a mature product, you need something with better performance. I hate to say it, but anything with a plug-in architecture is always going to be slower than a custom stack. I wonder how performance will be affected after the move. Never used tumblr by the way.

evanelias 2y ago
Infrastructure-wise, the FOSS wordpress.org that you self-host isn't quite the same as the massively multi-tenant wordpress.com service run by Automattic. Your comment seems to be about the former, but this announcement is about the latter. In other words, they're proposing a migration of some unspecified portion of Tumblr to re-use existing infrastructure/code/services that power the wordpress.com hosted service. They're not proposing somehow moving 600 million Tumblr blogs to individual FOSS wordpress.org instances; that indeed would make no sense whatsoever.