Comment by DetroitThrow
4 years ago
>DHH suspects that he was uninvited for political reasons and his stance on diversity.
To be clear, he was never uninvited. He has decided not to go because of a request for a joint keynote.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1499714921726...
The blog post DHH made also listed mostly work that he wasn't the primary contributor to (one of his contributions was primarily done by someone who left the community because of him!), and that didn't go over well.
As he escalates the drama he is largely seen as creating, people who have no interest in drama are leaving.
> To be clear, he was never uninvited.
That's why I wrote both what the email from RailsConf said, and how he interpreted it. But I agree that my wording about his interpretation was a bit unfortunate.
> As he escalates the drama he is largely seen as creating, people who have no interest in drama are leaving.
I've been a Rails dev for about 10 years, and I've always got the feeling that DHH very much enjoys drama, and purposefully stokes it and then escalates it. It's very much been a pattern for him. I tend to just ignore him these days, because whatever drama he's currently stoking usually has very little to do with my day to day usage of Rails.
I'm on the other hand under the impression that a lot of drama he creates is quite spot-on. A bit like Steve Jobs. Inconvenient thruths originating from a certain shrewdness.