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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,

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?

jmuguy 5y ago
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.
- JohnBooty 5y ago
  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!"
- sleepyhead 5y ago
  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.
ghiculescu 5y ago
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.
- mplewis 5y ago
  No one asked him not to come.
  - nomdep 5y ago
    They did. In the most cowardly way possible
davidrupp 5y ago
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.

jmuguy 5y ago

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.

JohnBooty 5y ago
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!"
sleepyhead 5y ago
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.

ghiculescu 5y ago

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.

mplewis 5y ago
No one asked him not to come.
- nomdep 5y ago
  They did. In the most cowardly way possible

davidrupp 5y ago

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.