I left Basecamp today

Who?

Github: George Claghorn

Project: Rails

Date: 04/30/2021

Why?

A significant number of employees left Basecamp following a fairly controversial decision by the leadership to ban societal and political discussion in their internal chats. One of the employees who announced they were leaving was George, who tweeted the following:

I left Basecamp today.

He then shortly followed up with him announcing that he was disengaging from Rails (Basecamp invented Rails):

I’ve also resigned from the Rails core team.