Hi, I'm from of the MDN team. While the team was briefly scaled down to just two members and a few contractors, we've since grown significantly.

Today, MDN is supported by a thriving team of 15, comprising core staff, contractors, and a broad network of partners and contributors who generously share their expertise to keep MDN strong and up to date.

Our team → https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/about#our_team

Good to know. The last bit of news that was stuck in my mind that MDN is no more maintained :)

To be honest, the page you linked is a bit difficult to parse; there are people who work "with" MDN, "in" MDN, "on" MDN, who "joined" MDN, etc.

Can you share how many people are actually full time employees vs freelancers?

Happy to share, sure. We have 12 full-time employees working on MDN and 3 freelancers.

Yeah, it is baffling. Why would a Mozilla domain celebrate mdn's birthday if Mozilla tried to kill it and laid off the complete team that ran it?

I'm always happy to see organizations that are able to learn from their mistakes.

But yeah, your reaction was also my first.

I really dislike how much I worry about Mozilla. I'm not an anxious person, but Mozilla is so important and so frequently seemingly unaware of the reasons.

A big part of it is OpenWebDocs, which is a mix of volunteers and tech companies.

https://openwebdocs.org

OpenWebDocs is a great partner of MDN! We celebrated this big milestone with them. <3

If you'd like to take a look at our partners page → https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/about#our_partners

The code is open, it's easy to check who's contributing what:

https://github.com/mdn/content/pulse/monthly

tl;dr: a slight majority of the recent top contributors do not appear to be Mozilla employees: I'm seeing Yale, several freelancers (paid by Mozilla?), and a bunch of random companies.

Hi, I'm part of the MDN team, and you're absolutely right! We’re fortunate to have a wide network of contributors, contractors, and partners who help us keep MDN accurate and up to date. As an open-source project, we deeply value and appreciate the incredible support we receive in building and maintaining extensive MDN content.