Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, confirmed that the migration of Tumblr to WordPress is on hold indefinitely. He emphasized the importance of prioritizing noticeable features for users over infrastructure projects. Mullenweg acknowledged that while the migration could have facilitated integration with the fediverse, it is no longer a priority. Tumblr remains unprofitable, relying on the profits of other Automattic products, yet Mullenweg expressed belief in Tumblr's future and plans to support its development moving forward.
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. This was more like an infrastructure thing, kind of like any big re-architecture. I still want to do it. It's just cleaner. But right now, we're not working on it.
...in the meantime, I think if there was a big push to implement fediverse, we would just do it on the Tumblr code base.
Tumblr is not profitable and is sustained from the profits of other Automattic products. I believe in Tumblr's future and plan to give it the runway it needs to figure things out.
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