It's very plausible that this is the first step of migrating CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean Tutorials. They've had enough time to see how well CSS-Tricks traffic is converting into customers, and perhaps there is a strong decline for the past couple of months, but this is entirely my own speculation.
Also, in their Q4 Report [0] they are using this wording,
"Added thousands of tutorials, guides and educational content through the acquisition of CSS-Tricks and JournalDev."
Back when DO acquired Scotch.io, they only migrated the best / most popular tutorials, and I wouldn't be surprised this is the fate for CSS-Tricks also. I think there are thousands of published pages on CSS-Tricks, many of which already overlap with what DO has written over the years, and on top of that - it would involve some serious work to migrate everything.
Again, these are just my thoughts on it, but why else would they just kick Geoff off the team like that?
[0]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005423/en/Dig...
Also, in their Q4 Report [0] they are using this wording,
"Added thousands of tutorials, guides and educational content through the acquisition of CSS-Tricks and JournalDev."
Back when DO acquired Scotch.io, they only migrated the best / most popular tutorials, and I wouldn't be surprised this is the fate for CSS-Tricks also. I think there are thousands of published pages on CSS-Tricks, many of which already overlap with what DO has written over the years, and on top of that - it would involve some serious work to migrate everything.
Again, these are just my thoughts on it, but why else would they just kick Geoff off the team like that?
[0]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005423/en/Dig...