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Wait a minute, did somebody get so pissed at flatpak that they bought a domain name just to specifically host that single blog post?

• TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Domains are cheap. Often free for one year.
  • Ecco 8y ago
    Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting. Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc...
    • TeMPOraL 8y ago
      > Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting. Depends on hosting company. I've "bought" domains for free many times, without hosting, just to run joke sites for few months.
      • Ecco 8y ago
        Ha, interesting! I always assumed a .org was at least a dollar. Mind sharing a link?
        • TeMPOraL 8y ago
          Don't have a free "org" source; maybe they never was. Free domains I got were under national TLD.
    • ReverseCold 8y ago
      > that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it Sounds fast to me if you know how. Just write the article (markdown + pandoc is fast) and... With Zeit you can just type `now` and `now alias (url) mydomain.xyz` - and the website is up and running at your domain for $domain_price + 0.10USD/GB. With DigitalOcean/Vultr/Some VPS Provider + Ansible you can do something similar.
    • AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
      > Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc.. I am among the laziest people I know and even I'm raising an eyebrow at this statement.
• rhexs 8y ago
  Guessing some other company involved with packaging formats?
  • jbicha 8y ago
    It is far more likely that the website was created by an individual, probably by the guy who submitted the site to Reddit's Linux forum.