Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold

Automatic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company did not work on the Tumblr blog platform to move to WordPress. Exec shared the news Verjin decoder podcastOn Monday, the project “holds” the indefinite period.

“What we decided, we will be noticeable to users and we want to pay a lot of things to ask for users,” he said. “It was more like a more infrastructure thing, like any great architecture. I still want to do it. This is just clean. But we don’t work now.”

The announcement also increases the questions that mean this meaning for the integration of open social Internet, known as Tumblr’s FEdivers. Migrating to WordPress to WordProup would be a federal application. Mullenweg admitted that it was one of the arguments to move, but showed that there is no more priority.

“… At this time, if it were a great impetus to carry out the fathers, we would only make it in the Tumblr Code Database,” he said.

Mullenweg reiterated that Tumblr is not profitable and other automatic products are resistant. Again, Tumblr said he believed in the future and planned to give something necessary to find something.