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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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All I want is to return to Tumblr but without the corpo bullshit
Did you see Automattic is in the process of rolling out a split from "notes" into likes, reblogs, and comments? 🤢
Last I heard from Automattic, they were putting the Fediverse conversion on indefinite hiatus.
Is your news saying they're starting up again ?
No, Wafrn is completely separate from Tumblr. And as far as I know the horrible redesign to make "notes" more like Twitter has nothing to do with the Tumblr-on-Wordpress/ActivityPub migration, which last I knew was indeed shelved.
That might be more related to what they're doing with the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, as a way to work around some of the weird limitations WordPress has for representing notifications and activities other than comments. It's fairly standard for Fediverse stuff.
Oh, I misunderstood, I didn't realize this related to Tumblr specifically...
Still, it might make some of the dev work easier, if they do end up migrating the backend over to WordPress.
They could do it on the back end and leave it as "notes" on the front end, though.
Switching out notes for a Twitter-like UI ruins something which made Tumblr Tumblr.
Comments on their post about it are about 99:1 against, but they're not gonna switch back.