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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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It's not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having "loved and lost," it doesn't look like there's much of a future.

Internet statesman and Waxy.org proprietor Andy Baio posted what is "apparently an internal Automattic memo making the rounds on Tumblr" to Threads. The memo, written to employees at WordPress.com parent company Automattic, which bought Tumblr from Verizon's media arm in 2019, is titled or subtitled "You win or you learn." The posted memo states that a majority of the 139 employees working on product and marketing at Tumblr (in a team apparently named "Bumblr") will "switch to other divisions." Those working in "Happiness" (Automattic's customer support and service division) and "T&S" (trust and safety) would remain.

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[–] RizzRustbolt 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had a path to profitability, but using the bible is more important to investors

[–] TrickDacy 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh.. what?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tumblr died because they banned porn, which is usually because of religion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this case it was because the app store wouldn't allow them to be on it with such access to porn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Apple did not remove them for porn, it removed them for CSAM content. It was their decision to nuke all porn instead of just the illegal stuff.

[–] RizzRustbolt 4 points 1 year ago

The App Developer's Bible. A 6000 page screed written by techbros and venture capitalists about how to turn an app in to a billion dollar IP. With such helpful rules as, "Current users are old users, and old users are lost users." Or, "uniformity of design does not equal uniformity of experience." And of course, "looking different is the death of your app. Steal relentlessly."

Don't worry about that other Bible. That's for poor people.