Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

I took comfort in the fact that the ruby community seemed miraculously immune from these petty disputes and takeovers from the benevolent entity running the service. Seems like that’s not the case anymore :(

Sorry for all the maintainers, that must suck.

I miss the days of "we're nice because matz is nice"

I've been a ruby user for almost 15 years. I've been to several RubyConfs in that time. I have never found that to be true. It's a thin veneer over rampant toxicity and political extremism. Many of the evangelists in the Ruby community garnered a horrible reputation outside of Ruby, then migrated to insular social media applications which no one uses, causing the slow and persistent decline in the popularity of the language.

Although I haven't been in the ruby community as long as you, I have been to two RubyConfs. I didn't notice any overt toxicity or political extremism when I went but I'd be interested to hear more about your experience if you don't mind sharing?

A decade ago there used to be a site called rubydrama.org because of how frequently the community blew up at itself.

It's often "Mats is nice and so we are nice" and sometimes abbreviated to MINASWAN (which confused me a lot when I didn't remember it)