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Other languages are broken and Italian is a slot machine ad

Open Zipdox2 opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

All the languages other than English give a 404, except Italian (https://it.pinout.xyz/), which appears to have been hijacked and shows a slot machine ad.

Zipdox2 avatar Nov 25 '24 23:11 Zipdox2

The non-English sites got lost in the transition over to GitHub pages.

But also... WHAT!? How on earth has the it site been hijacked!? It's a CNAME to pinout-xyz.github.io!?

Gadgetoid avatar Nov 25 '24 23:11 Gadgetoid

Okay apparently if I leave a CNAME pointing to a domain pointing to GitHub pages anyone can just rock up and claim it with whatever spam website they like and I have to grapple with support to try and reclaim it. Good fun. 🫠

Gadgetoid avatar Nov 25 '24 23:11 Gadgetoid

The non-English sites got lost in the transition over to GitHub pages.

Will they be returning, or does it make sense to remove the flags from the bottom of the page?

Okay apparently if I leave a CNAME pointing to a domain pointing to GitHub pages anyone can just rock up and claim it with whatever spam website they like and I have to grapple with support to try and reclaim it. Good fun. 🫠

OOOOF! :sob:

lurch avatar Nov 26 '24 02:11 lurch

Will they be returning

I wanted to try and bring them back but I've just never found the willpower or the energy.

Think the solution is to slap up a repository for every subdomain, claim the subdomain (troublesome for it.pinout.xyz because it's currently "owned" by a malicious GitHub user sigh), and point the publish script output at that repo somehow.

But then also I want to completely rebuild pinout from the ground up (if I can bring myself to stop hating https://pinout-xyz.github.io/pinout-2024/) sooooooooo 🫠

Gadgetoid avatar Nov 26 '24 09:11 Gadgetoid

Too many side-projects, not enough time or energy to devote to them - I know exactly what that's like! :sweat_smile:

lurch avatar Nov 26 '24 13:11 lurch