[Lapz]

That’s two people I’ve seen resign from basecamp. Is this the start of a trend ?

[byefruit]

Yea, there's a huge list of resignations:

https://twitter.com/sstephenson/status/1388146129284603906

https://twitter.com/ThatDetroitAndy/status/13881952733364019...

https://twitter.com/georgeclaghorn/status/138813100953171968...

https://twitter.com/lexicola/status/1388189598367559688

https://twitter.com/zachwaugh/status/1388190748189802501

https://twitter.com/sophaskins/status/1388155262972874754

https://twitter.com/jonasdowney/status/1388205182916440070

https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1388209146487623681

https://twitter.com/kikiaards/status/1388208900608954371

https://twitter.com/mackesque/status/1388206605506842627

https://twitter.com/wcmoline/status/1388208323908968449

https://twitter.com/RossRochford/status/1388202323718115329

https://twitter.com/conormuirhead/status/1388207801646780416

13 resignations today by my count.

[rurban]

Looks like they went full Amazon, by forbidding developers to work in OSS side projects. I cannot really believe it's that no politics talk only: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192

Edit: I was wrong. Politics destroyed them, not some crazy policies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708

[ryanbrunner]

There's no way that Basecamp forbade developers from working on Rails related side projects. A good chunk of what Sam Stephenson has worked on recently has been instrumental to launching Hey, and Basecamp has long benefited from their association with Rails and influence over it.

[sleepyhead]

True but all of those projects were work projects.

[rurban]

True. Strange outrage over some non-controversial issues. So it must be something internally they are super unhappy about.

Found the explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n22lmk/whats_...

Double standards.