Hey friends 🫂
Be nice with staff today, folks
Ok I wasn't planning to share anything about this because I was waiting for any official comms, but I'm seeing people from outside of Automattic sharing this screenshot in a WordPress-related public discord server, so I guess the cat is out of the bag:
TLDR: most of the current staff is being moved to other automattic divisions and Tumblr will be run by an skeleton crew
hi everyone!
if you've never paid attention to one of my posts, start now.
or you can look at the reblog before from @dualumina
i work in technology, specifically surrounding supporting enterprise software.
this is bad.
this is death knell bad.
this is "end of life" for a product bad.
tumblr has basically said: this website is not a revenue vehicle, and thus, it may perish naturally. we won't pull support from it. we won't force people to move off of projects surrounding it. but we will do the bare minimum moving forward to maintain it's existence and one day, when no one else wants to take responsibility for the decaying infrastructure and literally endless backlog of defects and code rewrites, the website will sunset.
you should start building a different online community today if you want one. there are options. or, hell, if you're savvy enough, you could start your own and open source it.
but you should start building a different, queer, inclusive online community yesterday if you want one.












