Automattic places Tumblr migration to WordPress on maintain

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the corporate is 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 wish to focus as a lot on the issues which can be going to be noticeable to customers and that customers are asking for,” he informed the location. “This was extra like an infrastructure factor, form of like several huge re-architecture. I nonetheless wish 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 internet, referred to as the fediverse. By migrating its infrastructure to WordPress, it could have develop into a federated app. Mullenweg admits that was one of many arguments for making the transfer, however hints that it’s not a precedence.

“…within the meantime, I feel if there was an enormous push to implement fediverse, we might simply do it on the Tumblr code base,” he stated.

Mullenweg additionally reiterated that Tumblr is just not worthwhile, and is sustained from the income of different Automattic merchandise. Nonetheless, he stated he believed in Tumblr’s future and plans to provide it the runway it must determine issues out.