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Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by adreamingsoul »

kill_nate_kill wrote: post #298
photomatt wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an excellent question! I don't want to be so presumptuous as to define an exact approach before the technical exploration has started, besides saying it'll be done incrementally and in an easily revertable way to be invisible to users, just like the big datacenter migration Automattic just completed a few weeks ago. At the point when we start this the Tumblr team will have been part of Automattic for the bette…

You should almost make it a documentary.

As a software engineer and independent filmmaker, I fully support this idea of creating a documentary (if one hasn't already been started).

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by discordianfish »

kill_nate_kill wrote: post #298
photomatt wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an excellent question! I don't want to be so presumptuous as to define an exact approach before the technical exploration has started, besides saying it'll be done incrementally and in an easily revertable way to be invisible to users, just like the big datacenter migration Automattic just completed a few weeks ago. At the point when we start this the Tumblr team will have been part of Automattic for the bette…

You should almost make it a documentary.

Or disaster movie.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by discordianfish »

photomatt wrote: post #57
knd775 wrote: post #22

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I'm curious why you would choose to maintain Verizon's policy changes that alienated the majority of the user-base.

Adult content is not our forte either, and it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... it's a problem area best suited for companies fully dedicated to creating a great experience there. I personally have very liberal views on these things, but supporting adult content as a business is very different.

> best suited for companies fully dedicated to creating a great experience there.

Sorry for being so blunt but I couldn't agree less with. If you leave this to "big porno", you will get the same exploitive, generic bullshit you get anywhere else as well. It's a shame that nobody dares to touch that who isn't in the porn industry already.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by fluroblue »

mattmanser wrote: post #375
elliekelly wrote: post #109

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> it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... I completely understand that “Adult Content” can cause a ton of headaches for a business but Tumblr’s current definition of “Adult Content” is very broad and I hope when the transaction is complete you’ll at least be open to reviewing the scope of the definition. Right now it includes many things that aren’t adult a…

I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual. Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.

The man likes a good nipple. What ya gonna do.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by JulianMorrison »

evanelias wrote: post #267
mikeschinkel wrote: post #261

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Just curious about your just curious; what is the architecture of the current Tumblr back end? This appears to be 6 years old. Is it still relevant? http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...

Ehhh parts of that article were never accurate, especially the stuff about having an hbase-powered dashboard feed. Primarily the product backend is monolithic PHP (custom framework) + services in various languages + sharded MySQL + Memcached + Gearman. Lots of other technologies in use though too, but I'll defer to current employees if they want to answer.

Fantasy big data: let's use Hadoop and Kafka!

Reality big data: Let's shard it across Mysql.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by yunruse »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #366
catwell wrote: post #352

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AFAIK "female presenting nipples" is banned from Apple's App Store in non-17+ apps. A huge company such as Facebook could maybe fight it, Automattic certainly can't.

Wait, are you saying Apple actually does allow any kind of NSFW content in the app store?

I mean… reddit’s app pretty clearly allows NSFW subreddits. You have to check a setting on the web to search for NSFW content, but that’s not actually in-app so it’s a-ok.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by joeyprr »

mattmanser wrote: post #375
elliekelly wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... I completely understand that “Adult Content” can cause a ton of headaches for a business but Tumblr’s current definition of “Adult Content” is very broad and I hope when the transaction is complete you’ll at least be open to reviewing the scope of the definition. Right now it includes many things that aren’t adult a…

I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual. Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.

I'm from Europe and I've visited quite a few countries in Europe, and to me it seems like it's pretty normal to be topless on _any_ beach... Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Greece...

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by tus88 »

photomatt wrote: post #11

I'm super excited to have the Tumblr team and product join the Automattic family. We've been evolving Automattic to be more of a Berkshire Hathaway-inspired model and businesses with a lot of autonomy, and this continues that trend. I was very impressed with the engagement and activity Tumblr has continued to have, and I hope that with this new ownership and investment the product will blossom.

Thanks for making a website that works nice without Javascript :)

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by anentropic »

evanelias wrote: post #167
photomatt wrote: post #11

I'm super excited to have the Tumblr team and product join the Automattic family. We've been evolving Automattic to be more of a Berkshire Hathaway-inspired model and businesses with a lot of autonomy, and this continues that trend. I was very impressed with the engagement and activity Tumblr has continued to have, and I hope that with this new ownership and investment the product will blossom.

According to this article [1], you plan to move Tumblr's backend onto WordPress. Considering that Tumblr's infra stores over 1 trillion distinct product objects, this would be one of the most technically ambitious migrations in history. Can you share any thoughts of how it will be approached? Will you be pruning/purging old content or inactive users? [1] https://poststatus.com/automattic-has-purchased-tumblr/

Wow, that sounds insane
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