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The wording states that the majority of the 139 staff in Bumblr will be moved to other projects. That means at max 69 people will stay while at least 70 will leave the project. That's at bare minimum cutting the team in half. Have no idea if Happiness and T&S are also tumblr-centered crews, so them not being affected could be a blessing or at worst have no affect on the matter.

Google really doesn't offer any good indication whether Bumblr is a goofy name for tumblr or an actual team that manages something specific to the website. Any tumblr staff member is welcome to clarify any of that if they want to, and can (nondisclosure agreements are a thing).

If Bumblr is a specific subset of the staff then they might be in charge of content updates, like check marks, events, things like that. In which case the usability and moderation will likely see little to no changes. Which is good! Trust us; you'd rather want a functional website with no new content than a non-functional one desperate to pump out updates.

Does it suck people are technically being fired from such a great (fingers crossed it's great at least) job? Oh definitely, but this isn't THE end of tumblr.

There will be change and we may not like it.

You should definitely save anything important just incase; less people means sometimes accidents will happen more frequently. Share your contact info with anyone you want to keep in contact with.

Happiness -> Support

T&S -> Trust & Safety

Bumblr -> Product development, editorial, marketing etc.

The "reduction" don't affect Happiness or T&S because they weren't "Tumblr" to begin with, they are a different divisions within automattic that are cross-product (cover all the products from the company). So if automattic has (I have no idea of the real numbers numbers) 100 people working on T&S, maybe half of those were working on tumblr until now. But if tomorrow they decide to left only 10 of them working of tumblr, they don't need to move the other 40 anywhere: they are still in the same team, just looking at a different JIRA board every morning. Same with Hapiness. So the fact that there are no changes in those divisions doesn't have to mean there won't be less people on them working on tumblr.

Technically, people are not being fired over this (though some of them had been, today), they will just be moved to other projects (WordPress, WooCom, Day One, etc).

After 4 months of collaborative work, I'm proud to finally post the don't starve MAP I storyboarded and organized! A big shout out and thank you to everyone involved with the project

Credits are all within the video description. A slight warning for lyrics about parasitic fungi, for anyone who might be sensitive to that idea.

POV: you thought you'd wake up in france

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! WOOOOO