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As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winterbash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winterbash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winterbash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}

As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winterbash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winterbash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the Easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winterbash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}

As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winter Bash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winter Bash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the Easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winter Bash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}

As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winterbash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winterbash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winterbash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}

As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winterbash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winterbash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winterbash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}

As much as I may understand the decision, I'm still very sad.

Winter Bash was a big part of many years of my career at Stack Overflow, and I enjoyed the work on it tremendously.

I had a lot of fun building countdowns, knitting machines, realistic stick figure snowfights, realistic snow fall animations, and chickens, and more chickens.

I enjoyed updating FAQs with a twist, drawing red herring hats (I'll explain that some day), tweaking the hat placement mechanics, and when I left the company in 2019, writing down detailed documentation of how everything Winter Bash-related works in our internal Stack Overflow for Teams instance.

Most of all, I enjoyed seeing how our users had fun chasing and wearing hats and discovering the Easter eggs I left for them.

I made a little tribute so we don't forget: https://winterbash.rip *

Rest in peace, Winter Bash. You were awesome.

_{* personal tribute, to be clear -- not endorsed by Stack Overflow Inc.}