News of Tumblr's purchase by Yahoo! has prompted a flood of established users to flee that social-media site, according to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. In a blog post, Mullenweg said that around 400 to 600 Tumblr users typically import their content into WordPress every hour, with 67 exports per hour exiting the blogging …

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Monday 20th May 2013 19:07 GMT JDX

prompted a flood of established users to flee

Or less politely, idiots.

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Monday 20th May 2013 19:12 GMT Rick Giles

At least

It wasn't *oogle or Faecesbook.

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1. Monday 20th May 2013 21:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: At least
  
  You are the man!
  
  What a fab name for a porn site: Oogle.
  
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Monday 20th May 2013 19:16 GMT Anonymous Coward

Never used it 'till now

...but now your article has given me a reason to visit the site. Well, okay, at least TWO reasons...

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1. Tuesday 21st May 2013 08:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Never used it 'till now
  
  I'm at work now, so can't really help, but would El Reg permit us to post the best (or most downright eye-popping) tumblr porn sub-domains here?
  
  Some of them are gloriously specific, all except the most finicky porn enthusiasts can have hours of fun there.
  
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Monday 20th May 2013 20:42 GMT Will Godfrey

First they came for the Hotmailers;

But I was not a Hotmailer so I said nothing...

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1. Monday 20th May 2013 22:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  For .. or On ..
  
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Tuesday 21st May 2013 03:02 GMT 0_Flybert_0

jus' wanna mention that that wordpress can be used on any PHP installed server and can contain any content, whether wordpress.com ( which of course can censor what it wishes there ) likes it or not

there is .. of course .. the Sh^d0wPr0n kingdom of Yahoo! Groups

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 07:40 GMT Richard Wharram

They couldn't object to my Sexy Goat Farts blog could they?

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 07:44 GMT Anonymous Coward

Congratulations!

You! Posted! A! Yahoo! Headline! Without! Doing! This!

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1. Tuesday 21st May 2013 08:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Congratulations!
  
  See the corrections link.
  
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Tuesday 21st May 2013 09:03 GMT DavCrav

" In a conference call with investors, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer suggested that those with an interest in such content have nothing to fear."

I'm guessing that, given the content, they weren't really hiding anything, so of course they have nothing to fear.

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Tuesday 21st May 2013 13:08 GMT TeeCee

Hmm, you can see where this is going.

Just one question then.

If everyone who can buggers off to Wordpress, leaving Tumblr as the world's first specialist blogging site for filth, is that going to make Tumblr more or less popular?

i.e. Is going long or short on Yahoo! shares the correct move?

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Wednesday 22nd May 2013 23:05 GMT Delbert

and no axes were ground honest

Hardly a disinterested bystander are we Wordpress, and not trying to panic anybody to their services at all?

ooh look was that a pig flying past the window?

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