Wow, they didn’t waste much time whipping Bryan off the staff page did they? Clearly, adding Lloyd (how many months has it been now? two and a bit? surely he can’t still be hiding from his former Flock overlords?), not to mention Matt 2 and Markifying Podz were lesser priorities. As apparently was adding up how many staff they have. The blurb with the links that lead nowhere says eleven, I counted nine profiles, and one of those is somebody whose appointment was never announced anywhere, so maybe she’s as illusory an employee as Jonas Luster. (Remember Jonas Luster? The guy who got stuck with the firefighting during Spamgate? He stopped even using wordpress after that, as I recall.) Personally I wouldn’t have thought that appointing a woman was something to be ashamed of, but then you never know how the fanboys are going to react to such shocking revelations as ‘women exist, and some of them can even code’.

Oh, and the Automattic site’s been redesigned. That was fast as well. It’s not quite finished yet (see my reference to broken links) and it looks less professional than it used to:

but presumably this is all part of establishing a coherent brand identity across all of their sites. I expect Akismet to be redone in blue, black and grey with serious overuse of big bold fonts shortly.