Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the corporate is now not engaged on migrating its Tumblr running a blog platform to WordPress, as beforehand introduced. The exec shared the information on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, printed on Monday, saying that the challenge is “on maintain” for an indefinite interval.
“What we determined is that we need to focus as a lot on the issues which are going to be noticeable to customers and that customers are asking for,” he instructed the positioning. “This was extra like an infrastructure factor, form of like all large re-architecture. I nonetheless need to do it. It’s simply cleaner. However proper now, we’re not engaged on it.”
The announcement additionally raises questions on what this implies for Tumblr’s integration with the open social net, often known as the fediverse. By migrating its infrastructure to WordPress, it could have turn into a federated app. Mullenweg admits that was one of many arguments for making the transfer, however hints that it’s now not a precedence.
“…within the meantime, I believe if there was an enormous push to implement fediverse, we’d simply do it on the Tumblr code base,” he mentioned.
Mullenweg additionally reiterated that Tumblr just isn’t worthwhile, and is sustained from the income of different Automattic merchandise. Nonetheless, he mentioned he believed in Tumblr’s future and plans to present it the runway it must determine issues out.
