There's Obviously A Lot Of Talk About Tumblr Being Shut Down, Which Does Not Appear To Be Happening,

There's obviously a lot of talk about Tumblr being shut down, which does not appear to be happening, but do you think the re-organization will be enough to keep Tumblr running indefinitely? Or is this maybe the start of an eventual shut down of Tumblr?

What's super clear is our previous approach wasn't working. It didn't turn around the business to make enough money to support the investment of infrastructure and staff needed to run Tumblr, and a lot of users were unhappy with some of the changes we tried. There have been a few staff changes within the team, but basically what we're saying is starting January 1, 2024 we'll try a different structure with smaller, more focused teams working on the core parts of Tumblr that people say they want improved. We'll sunset or rollback some things we tried that didn't work.

I'm advocating for this change because I think it has a good chance at success. I don't do anything hoping to fail. There are lots of examples of products with hundreds of millions more MAUs and smaller teams than Tumblr currently has, and there are amazing examples like OpenAI and Telegram running circles around much bigger players with small teams. That's what we hope to replicate.

The good news is as well, since people leaving Tumblr aren't being laid off, they're just switching to other teams within Automattic, if something doesn't work or breaks we can always pull them back in to work on it.

neocities day 3: i am in love. i love blinkies. i love stamps. i love wacky gifs. i love cursor trails. i love mouse icons. i love music and sound effects. visiting a webpage feels like stepping into someones home. its their place that they are letting you visit and see. it just feels so wonderful.

I keep seeing people mention neocities in passing but I've never truly understood what the magic of it was. Today I decided to take the plunge and wow. it's Different. it's really cool. it feels like I've walked into a whole new internet.

I liked tumblr because of how it still feels like there's real individuality. People are out there doing their own thing, building off of each other, making their own space where they can do whatever they want. But I've always been weird about posting. It still feels very much like I'm doing something for other people to see, which is a scary thing. Respect to anyone who's willing to put themselves out there like that, I'm just not sure I'm built like that.

But neocities feels like it really is just me on my site. And I can really just make a space for myself that nobody else is forced to see. No feed no posts just a little space to myself. My quiet little corner.

I'm think going to maybe try and also blog about how that exploration is going but no promises. I think it's going to be cool :]

you EVIL BOOP??? you evil boop iso? oh! Oh! Jail for @word-heap for a thousand years

The trolley service will have to wait I fear

this is also how i got onto linux. built a computer on a shoestring budget mixed with pieces salvaged from a university e-waste bin, didn't think about the OS until the thing was built and I either had to drop $100 on windows or try out this linux thing for free. it was mint for me, a friend recommended it, but I picked it up pretty quick and I've been using linux of some kind or another ever since

ubuntu 11.04 was my first linux but i wasn't really with it at the time, yknow, i was just installing some free orange OS i found on the internet so that i wouldn't have to pay for windows; i didn't even know that ubuntu came in versions. 11.10 was the first one whose name i still remember clearly, i remember thinking it was super cool. oneiric ocelot. and even now i am still dreaming....