for roll call purposes: yes, I was here for the mark of athena cliffhanger, the 'good kid' teaser and the following two cast albums, for the mcga/toa book announcements, falafel jokes and cartercy in 2017... and while new fans are not safe from spoilers on this blog you are loved and embraced and very much encouraged to interact
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The most frightening thing I can imagine is when you're an overthinker and something actually happens out of the 13657 possibilities you thought of.
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The post about Tumblr dying is fear mongering.
tbh i dont think talking about an outcome that currently seems inevitable is fear mongering
so. is tumblr going to go down, right now? no! right now, for us users, very little to nothing will change! however, from what we know, they are actively moving staff away from tumblr, with no plans to ever grow that staff back up. as people who know more about tech than me have already said, this means updates will trickle to a stop. bugs and glitches will pile up. without the number of staff to maintain tumblr properly, eventually it will be unable to keep running.
keyword: eventually!
again, that's not right now. we're looking at the future here. so people looking to gather on other sites, to figure out where their communities are moving? they're looking towards that future. they, and i, want to be prepared, and can you blame us? while I was too young for it, I've heard about all the communities that were lost from livejournal. people are trying to prevent that from happening again.
it's not fear mongering to say "because of these actions, the site will eventually cease to run, so we should look to come together as community and have an idea of our next move when tumblr can no longer house us."
theres every chance we still have YEARS of functionality on this site left, even with the staff being cut. and, hey! maybe we'll get lucky. maybe they decide not to do this, or maybe tumblr gets bought out, and is actually able to make a profit without losing a significant portion of its user base. but a site can't run indefinitely without proper staffing.
addendum:
I did the check the blog of the original poster of the screenshot after writing this up. according to him, there seems to be no long term management plan, meaning we likely /would/ be in the holding pattern of "skeleton crew with very little to no additional support" that was already outlined in the screenshot and that people are assuming from it.
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Holy Shit! This was soooo good! To go from not knowing who Matpat is to making such a detailed short film of his life in like a month is so incredible. I hadn't heard of Sticks before Matt mentioned them on GTLive but damnnn they are so incredibly talented!
Also we get a Matpat short film if these guys get a million subs?!
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delighted by the thought of someone asking in passing why Steve Harrington is considered attractive and Eddie's rant being the equivalent of him going "I'm glad you asked! Here is my PowerPoint presentation and here is an indexed record of all the incidents I will be referencing, here are several songs I wrote, here's a photo album with 100+ polaroids in it and towards the end we will have a Q&A. Please sit down now"
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