I haven't particularly noticed a dropoff in quality (I'm not a frequent user though, so that doesn't say much), but I can easily imagine that many of their best

I haven't particularly noticed a dropoff in quality (I'm not a frequent user though, so that doesn't say much), but I can easily imagine that many of their best journalists left, and given the situation described here (second-class citizens with second-class payscale at the NYT), they weren't replaced. As for the staff of 70, perhaps the NYT has pushed them to expand into an ever-greater set of product categories (on top of keeping existing products up-to-date)? Perhaps the lack of integration with the NYT means they're still managing a lot of their own infrastructure/HR/etc.?