I started listening to the latest Decoder podcast with guest Matt Mullenweg, but I’m not yet to the part about Tumblr. Not hugely surprising, they have paused the (monumental) task of moving Tumblr’s backend to WordPress:

The company announced the plan to move over the more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last year, saying that the change would “make it easier to share our work across platforms.” But Mullenweg says on Decoder that, “what we decided is that we want to focus as much on the things that are going to be noticeable to users and that users are asking for.”

@manton That sucks. It's not terribly suprising but it sucks.

@manton I’ve been both disappointed to see the lack of progress on ActivityPub support, and encouraged to see the continued commitment to Tumblr.

Mullenweg seems to be, like me, a grown-ass adult with no reason to be committed to Tumblr other than he likes it.

@JohnPhilpin I thought the way he went after a competitor was over-the-top but it’s one incident in a long career.

@MitchW not at all .. Silverlake drove that behavior .. and somebody needs to show these people up for who they are.