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This lemmy instance is a place for discussing all things related to the fantasy light novel series "Ascendance of a Bookworm" (Japanese Title: "Honzuki no Gekokujō") written by Miya Kazuki and Illustrated by Yō Shiina. Regular bookworms are also welcome to register here.

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Nobody reads this far down right? I'll just shill for J-Novel Club a bit because I love that they sell DRM free Ebooks. Go buy the series from their website.

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Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused” (arstechnica.com)
 
 

CEO confirms Tumblr has lost "well north of $100M" since acquisition.

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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
 
 

Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff::CEO confirms Tumblr has lost "well north of $100M" since acquisition.

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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
 
 

"600+ person-years of effort" have not stopped the site from losing $30M a year.

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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
 
 

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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