~~Wait wtf. Automattic was sold in a fire sale?
When? Why? How?
They were not making money? I thought they had WordPress.com - that should be making pretty good right? Or paid plugins like jetpack - those gotta be making money.
How did this happen that they got sold in fire sale?~~
Edit oh. Ive read it wrong. Tumblr was sold in a fire sale, okok. Yeah I could see that.
So much WordPress hate but I survived off making WordPress sites out of college. The new built in site theme editor is great. No more hacky plugins.
Yeah it was a nice tool for making sites fast. I loved using it but haven’t in a very long time. I hope it’s still nice to work with like it was before. Even with PHP it wasn’t that bad of an experience lol.
Tumblr is such an old technology
Ah yes, WordPress, renowned for it’s robust social engagement tools.
It’s the kind of decision you announce over Zoom so people don’t riot
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Hopefully they’re planning on using that to integrate with the Fediverse.
Neocities already has its own internal engagement stuff (with people following each other, commenting on updates etc), it probably wouldn’t be too hard to throw that into ActivityPub.
Just like wordpress though neoticies is much more “here is my stuff, browse through it” oriented than tumblr, which is at least 70% towards twitteresque “here’s a firehose of different stuff of different people please make comments and retweet every image”.
Hopefully they’ll at least use Bedrock and not default Wordpress.
Or modify it themselves.
