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Re:No RailsConf by JohnBooty on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:38AM (#30543216)
I hope I'm misunderstanding something, because this seems like a baseless tantrum from DHH. From the linked post, this was RailsConf's message:

    Hi David,

    Hope you’ve been well.

    With you having been mostly offline the last 
    year, the program committee has decided it 
    would be valuable for the community to start 
    sharing the opening keynote stage with other 
    contributors. We have a few in mind but if you 
    have any suggestions of people who have been 
    impactful this year, please share them.
    
    If you have any questions, please let me know.
    
     - Evan
It sounds like they just wanted him to share the keynote stage with some others? And even asked for his suggestions?

It doesn't sound like he's being asked not to participate. What am I missing?

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Re:No RailsConf by jmuguy on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:09PM (#30544481)
That was my impression as well. Unless we're missing additional context - I don't see what's so outrageous about that message, except that "mostly offline" doesn't make any sense.
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Re:No RailsConf by JohnBooty on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:27PM (#30544724)
Yeah, DHH's bafflement over the "mostly offline" part is probably the one aspect of his reaction I actually agree with - I don't get that part.

Not sure how being "online" matters, when DHH (as he points out at length) has had a pretty packed year of Rails progress. Maybe RailsConf has had a hard time getting in touch with him?

DHH has jumped right to the conclusion that RailsConf has some kind of problem with him. Perhaps, but if that was really the case, it seems like they would have just declined to invite him entirely? "Hey, we have a problem with this guy. Let's only let him talk for some of the keynote!"

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Re:No RailsConf by sleepyhead on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:02AM (#30552678)
Perhaps based on him using Twitter as a one-way communication the last year. Not replying to others. Turned off replies for his own tweets.

But yeah, poorly worded and unnecessary.

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Re:No RailsConf by davidrupp on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:11PM (#30546201)
I read it as a euphemism for "give other contributors a chance at presenting the opening keynote going forward, not you (DHH) every year by default". It is vaguely worded, so I suppose they could mean sharing in the sense of spreading this year's keynote across multiple presenters, but in the context of the past year it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was RailsConf's way of uninviting DHH.
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Re:No RailsConf by ghiculescu on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:26PM (#30544718)
How do you share a keynote? The dude can talk for hours.

It seems to me (and I guess to him?) like a politely worded way of asking him to not come at all.

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Re:No RailsConf by mplewis on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:50PM (#30547510)
No one asked him not to come.
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Re:No RailsConf by nomdep on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:32AM (#30554453)
They did. In the most cowardly way possible
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