verizon sells tumblr to wordpress' parent company, automattic

[yeezus_christ]

Tumblr is being sold by Verizon to Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress. https://t.co/FF4zHF2fyW
- Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) August 12, 2019

• verizon is selling tumblr to automattic, the company behind the blogging tool wordpress. while the size of the deal has not been publicly announced it's estimated at less than $3 million.

Comments

[yeezus_christ]

literally, all i thought when i first read it.
i hope they're absorbed into wordpress but i know that's entirely unrealistic.

[lawofcosines]

they made a mistake

the stupid ban never eliminated the porn bots on that website while actual content like photographs and gifsets get flagged for ridiculous shit. its search function is outdated, the site is clunky to use and the app is terrible

[djbbgoose]

search has always been awful, i can't believe there's no function to filter through multiple tags

[ms_mmelissa]

RIGHT??? It's truly amazing that people have been begging for this for literal years (or maybe even a decade at this point?) and it still doesn't exist.

[lawofcosines]

search remains the bane of every tumblr user's existence

no filter through tags, no exact results etc. i also blame tumblr users for making the tags as author's notes or commentary, it's unnecessary and i hate seeing it so much. tags is for categorization!!!!

[yeezus_christ]

that happens to me sometimes to. i just assume it's youtube updating the backend of their servers.

[spoil]

I love tumblr too, it's really relaxing during stressful moments

[polynucleotide]

less than $3 million. i fucking cannot. even gamestop values your trade-ins more than verizon values tumblr.

[yeezus_christ]

😂🤣😂🤣😂

[vvitchbaby]

speaking of tumblr... yall seen the mitski allegations from a user there?

[lawofcosines]

link omg

[vvitchbaby]

the post that started it all. they've since posted some more stuff I haven't caught up on yet.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I saw something on my dash but didn't catch it....w t f