This plan is happening now: the majority of the 139 people in Bumblr will switch to other divisions. No plans for any switches in Happiness or T&S.
"Happiness" is our term for customer support, and "T&S" means trust and safety, which is the team that works on fighting bots, spam, dealing with illegal stuff, etc.
接著有大致提到轉移的過程會是怎麼樣,另外後面提到時間表:
The switchovers will happen on December 31, so we start 2024 completely fresh.
"The majority of the 139 people in Bumblr will switch to other divisions"
This is not what is happening. Many people have been let go (under the guise of performance) and in the past week the pace picked up from individuals to entire teams. Automattic seems adamant these are not layoffs, but people dissapear instantly without being offered alternative teams.
It is more accurate to say that the ActivityPub plugin[1] which was acquired by Automattic has hit 1.0 and is available to be used on WordPress.com. Yes, Mastodon implements (most of) ActivityPub but it's hardly the only platform on the web that does.
2023/08/09 04:52:32 [error] 845702#845702: *1350433 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function W3TC\Util_Environment::is_dbcluster(), 0 passed in /srv/blog.gslin.org/public/wp-content/db.php on line 56 and exactly 1 expected in /srv/blog.gslin.org/public/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/Util_Environment.php:176
雖然 Matt Mullenweg 在文章裡都沒提到,但 WordPress 的興起其實跟當年 2004 年最大的 blog 軟體 Movable Type 自己出的包有很大的關係:
With the release of version 3.0 in 2004, there were marked changes in Movable Type's licensing, most notably placing greater restrictions on its use without paying a licensing fee. This sparked criticism from some users of the software, with some moving to the then-new open-source blogging tool WordPress. With the release of Movable Type 3.2, the ability to create an unlimited number of weblogs at all licensing levels was restored. In Movable Type 3.3, the product once again became completely free for personal users.
當年 hlb 在社團主機上用 Movable Type 架了服務讓大家寫,結果後來發生了 license 問題,大家就都順勢跑到 WordPress 上了;而等到 Movable Type 再次想放寬 license 的時候已經來不及了,大家都已經搬完了。