Delivery Tumblr and WordPress

Didya see that Tumblr is getting a WordPress makeover? And it’s not a trivial transfer:

This received’t be straightforward. Tumblr hosts over half a billion blogs. We’re speaking about one of many largest technical migrations in web historical past. Some folks assume it’s not possible. However we are saying, “problem accepted.”

Half a billion blogs. Contemplating that WordPress already powers someplace round 40% of all web sites (which is way, a lot larger than 500m) this’ll actually push that determine even additional.

I’m positive there’s not less than one suspicious nostril on the market catching whiffs of selling smoke although I’m amicable to the chance that it is a real transfer to boost a beloved platform that’s largely seen as a previous relic of the Flickr period. I liked Tumblr again then. It actually embraced the entire thought {that a} weblog can assist facilitate higher writing with a wide range of publish codecs. (Put up codecs, fwiw, are one thing I at all times wished could be a WordPress first-class citizen however they by no means made it out of being an opt-in theme characteristic). Tumblr was the primary time I used to be in a position to see running a blog as greater than a linear chain of content material organized in reverse chronological order. Weblog posts are extra about what you write and how you write it than they’re when they’re written.

Anyway, I do know jobs are a scarce commodity in tech lately and Auttomatic is on the lookout for people to assist with the migration.

I used to be about to say this “may” be a neat alternative, however nay, it’s an excellent fascinating and thrilling alternative, one the place your work is touching two of essentially the most influential running a blog platforms on the planet. I keep in mind interviewing Alex Hollender and Jon Robson after they shipped a design replace to Wikipedia and pondering how a lot enjoyable and studying would come out of a undertaking like that. This has that very same vibe to me. Buuuut, make no illusions about it: it’ll be powerful.

Delivery Tumblr and WordPress initially revealed on CSS-Methods, which is a part of the DigitalOcean household. It’s best to get the publication.