Local newshounds woke up this morning to to learn that neighborhood blog PoPville had joined forces with Local News Now, the online publisher of ARLnow and RestonNow.

But despite the stylistic differences between the sites, don’t expect any major changes on what founder Dan Silverman is calling PoPville 3.0.

“There’s no anticipated big strategy to make things different,” says Silverman. “There’s no difference—it’s still me.” So you can count on continued scuttlebutt, reader rants, and Today in Hawks Around Town.

Local News Now has no editorial control or ownership over PoPville. “We’re just the people helping with tech and sales,” says Scott Brodbeck, the founder and CEO of Local News Now. “It remains all Dan from an editorial standpoint.” Silverman and LNN have a revenue-sharing agreement, though they declined to get into specifics.

“We’re going to continue running our own sites the way we run them,” says Brodbeck. “This is not the AOL-Time Warner deal. We’re not necessarily looking for synergies.”

For Local News Now, it’s the first time that the company is branching out into hosting and maintaining other sites. Silverman says that the fit made sense—he’s known Brodbeck for years and his contract with his previous, Brooklyn-based support group was ending.

“Hosting [PoPville] did get very expensive on my old service, and so that was definitely one motivation, but there was not just one motivation,” says Silverman.

One change, other than PoPville’s new aesthetic, is the switch to commenting system Disqus (which DCist also uses), requiring an account to chime in. Brodbeck says that the change will mean that for readers of several local sites, there’ll be one log-in to comment.

Silverman says the service “adds a little bit more accountability from the user. I definitely haven’t had as many trolls today.”

Local News Now’s last foray into D.C.-based news was Borderstan, a local reported blog that the company brought back from the dead in 2015 only to shutter again about a year-and-a-half later. The company’s other hyperlocal blog in D.C., Hill Now, was closed in July, with much of its coverage area shifted to Borderstan.

“It is really disappointing we had to close Borderstan. It just didn’t work financially,” says Brodbeck. “The good news is Arlington and Reston are doing great. We are definitely here for the long haul.”