# Have we lost Codinghorror? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 25, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-lost-codinghorror/923884 "2020-10-25T23:02:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-lost-codinghorror/923884/33 "2020-10-26T21:35:36Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > If he’s actually holding against us skepticism from 8 years ago, then I suppose his flouncing out is in keeping with that. I want to clarify that I don’t think he’s doing that. In fact, when that thread was recently revived, **codinghorror** posted: > [@Can we build better forum software?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-build-better-forum-software/615723/194): > > I’m just happy that everything worked out! clap Whether you win every battle you enter isn’t important (or even possible), what matters is that we continue to improve our little corners of the world as much as we can. I am as shocked and surprised as anyone else that Straight Dope eventually made the transition to Discourse exploding_head. I realize Discourse is a big change but my dream is that, being fully and uncompromisingly open source software, not under the thumb of any megacorporati… From _my_ perspective (not his), he was an awesome guy for coming back and helping out after what happened to him when he first joined. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And if he didn’t want, himself, to discuss such issues on the board, why did he keep on doing so for so long, and often with all appearances of being happy to do so? Bill Gates posts on Reddit. He does the most awesome Secret Santa ever, and he does some AMAs and such. When he’s there, he sometimes answers questions about his software, often very politely. But if people demanded that he do so, I personally feel it would be reasonable for him to delete his account. Thankfully, no one does that at Reddit, so he continues to hang out there sometimes. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > But people got angry, and he probably got angry back. In my view, I didn’t get the sense that he was angry. It may have looked like that because he inactivated his account. I think he just realized that with all the confusion, he wasn’t helping the conversation, as **TroutMan** explained. Back in 2012 when **codinghorror** stopped answering questions about the software, someone here emailed him, demanding that he return to answer questions. I don’t want to dredge that back up, so I won’t give details. It’s just an explanation for why he might have left the inactive label instead of just stopping answering. He might have wanted to pre-empt any attempts at future contact like what happened before. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-lost-codinghorror/923884)._