Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith?

In my opinion, Codesmith’s leadership appears to have overestimated the impact of my Reddit comments and attributed broader market and business challenges to them. Based on publicly visible engagement metrics, many of my comments receive relatively limited visibility, often dozens to low hundreds of views, and many are buried deep within long threads. By contrast, several negative posts about Codesmith written by individuals I do not know received tens of thousands of views. I had no involvement in those posts. I cannot discuss all of the underlying information I have reviewed, but based on my assessment of publicly available data, industry trends, and the overall decline affecting many coding bootcamps, I believe the challenges facing Codesmith are primarily market-driven rather than caused by my commentary. It is also my understanding that Reddit was discussed internally at Codesmith. If so, that may have amplified the perceived significance of online criticism within the organization and might have caused cycles of discussion about posts and content that seemed like a bigger deal internally. If prospective students cited Reddit as influencing their decisions, the highest-visibility content appears to have been posts written by third parties, not my own comments specifically. To summarize my position: I believe I unintentionally struck a nerve through criticism that I viewed as fair commentary on public information. In hindsight, it may have been beneficial for us to have had a direct conversation several years ago to clarify concerns and avoid escalation.