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 individuals suppose it’s unattainable. 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 greater than 500m) this’ll actually push that determine even additional.
I’m certain there’s no less than one suspicious nostril on the market catching whiffs of promoting smoke although I’m amicable to the chance that this can be a real transfer to boost a beloved platform that’s largely seen as a previous relic of the Flickr period. I beloved Tumblr again then. It actually embraced the entire thought {that a} weblog may also help facilitate higher writing with quite a lot of publish codecs. (Put up codecs, fwiw, are one thing I all the time wished can be a WordPress first-class citizen however they by no means made it out of being an opt-in theme function). 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 today and Auttomatic is in search of 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 probably 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 venture like that. This has that very same vibe to me. Buuuut, make no illusions about it: it’ll be robust.
