Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This smells to me like WordPress reducing their workload more than anything since they own Tumblr (unless maybe there’s some sort of financial incentive to increasing the number of WordPress blogs?).

  But also, considering that at one point in Tumblr’s history, you could edit other people’s posts, maybe it is an improvement.

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  • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But also, considering that at one point in Tumblr’s history, you could edit other people’s posts, maybe it is an improvement.

    What 😭

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So the way Tumblr works is that your account is basically a blog, with your home page on the site being populated with posts from the accounts that you follow. You can reblog posts onto your own account and comment on them to create individual conversation threads like this one. At one point, there was a bug in the edit post system that let you edit the entirety of a post when you reblogged it, including what other people had said previously, and even the original post. This would only affect your specific reblog of it, of course, but you could edit a post to say something completely different from the original and create a completely unrelated comment chain.

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    • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      John green sends his regards

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t remember that. He had his posts edited, or he edited someone else’s posts?

        Doesn’t he have a funny username, like “FishingBoatProceeds” or something?

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• herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right? At this point I’m just sticking with WordPress because I can’t be bothered to migrate a bunch of sites off of it. Every year for the past decade it’s felt jankier. Tumblr’s backend has to be a dumpster fire for this to seem like a good idea.

  My criticism aside, WP still has the convenience factor of being the open source web platform that has a plugin for just about any need. Whether those plugins are gonna break for site or introduce interesting new vulnerabilities is a different discussion.

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on what exactly you want to host. If you want commercially-hosted stuff, I’d stick with wordpress or whatever your host offers, but if you’re selfhosting I’d look in !selfhosted@lemmy.world or github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?….

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      • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I suppose what I'm looking for is a lightweight, multi-user CMS, with support for both static pages and a blog. If the blog could support (at least one-way) federation that'd be a bonus. It should ideally be built to work with both desktop and mobile devices (so that I can customise the look rather than build it from scratch).

        It's something I could build from scratch but if I can do it then I'm sure lots of more skilled people have done it better!

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re not alone, I’ve still got clients with WP sites and it feels more and more patchworky every time I use it. The vulnerabilities may keep me up at night, but it would take a ton of effort to move them over, and my clients certainly don’t want to pay for that.

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see this all the time. People complain about WP but think the alternatives are better, when they’re just trading problems for others.

      WP core is stable AF. I’ve shared in many prior comments how I spend so many more dev hours fixing other CMSes over WP.

      And if you don’t even need a CMS, fuck it all and switch to static hosting and markdown.

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, for sure. Joomla still haunts my dreams.

        All of my own sites are static because it’s easy for me to modify. But my clients need something a bit more user friendly, unfortunately.

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• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It makes sense.

  Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

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• arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tumblr’s backend has been passed between several companies for several decades, it’s a miracle it still works and can be updated

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