Automattic had big plans for revitalizing Tumblr, but despite burning through a lot of cash, they haven’t been able to successfully monetize it. From a leaked memo it appears that Automattic is pulling back on resources. Here is the discussion on Mastodon.

Automattic acquires the universal messaging app Texts.

So it looks like Automattic has duplicated the WordPress org theme and plugin directories as well as the LearnWP resources. It is not clear why they did this, but it will cause more confusion as you now get two versions when searching. Matt Mullenweg was asked about it on X and he said that the dot org version appears first (?). Here is the thread of X discussing this.

Automattic made it to number 68 in the Cloud 100 with a valuation of $7.5 billion. The Cloud 100 is a list of the best private cloud computing companies. It is interesting to see the valuations of some familiar names.

The WP Minute has an excerpt from a recent chat between Seth Godin and Tim Ferris where it is briefly mentioned.

Automattic has released a local development environment that runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is called “wp-now” and it can launch a new development site in seconds. It uses NodeJS, WebAssembly, and SQLite to run WordPress in the browser.