Rewriting Tumblr
Automattic (via Sarah Perez, Slashdot):
Since Automattic acquired Tumblr we’ve made it more efficient, grown its revenue, and worked to improve the platform. But there’s one part of the plan that we haven’t yet started, which is to run Tumblr on WordPress. I’m pleased to say we’re kicking off that project now!
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We’re talking about running Tumblr’s backend on WordPress. You won’t even notice a difference from the outside.
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This won’t be easy. Tumblr hosts over half a billion blogs. We’re talking about one of the largest technical migrations in internet history.
This could get a simple colorful user-friendly interface for WordPress, something it’s needed for a long time. WordPress does everything in its UI, Tumblr has its UI better organized for writers and more casual users. If they can move in this direction, it seems that WordPress could be large part of the emerging social web.
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Your reputation is considerably diminished by reposting comments from DW. I will remember it.
I started to write a comment about DW, but it ended up getting too long and personal without really adding a lot of general value.
DW and I communicated regularly for about a decade and then had a falling out more than twenty years ago over something I consider to be very trivial. I regard him as a true tech visionary in several areas, but I also believe he has a pattern of being surprisingly intolerant of different viewpoints. For better or worse, that is not an unusual combination in the tech world.
I may not be in contact with him any more, but blogging is one of the areas where he qualifies as a visionary, so when he opines on the subject, I find his views to be worth considering and sometimes deeply insightful, even if you end up disagreeing with them.
We've found ourselves in an intolerant world where disagreement with an individual in one area means that their views on other topics must be ignored or even de-platformed. It's a mistake, and it cannot be good for society.
