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    > The company clarified that it will not change Tumblr _into_ WordPress; it will just run on WordPress.
    > ...
    > You won’t even notice a difference from the outside[.]

Less of a story than the headline suggests.

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If they can pull of that migration, it seems interesting enough for HN. It’s “just” a blog, but this is a huge technical challenge.

Oh, definitely. But the average tumblr user won't wake up one day and have their page look like a wordpress site. (There's a chance they'll wake up one day and everything is down for a while, but that's a different matter.)

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