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Someone prank the website?

Open Davester47 opened this issue 5 years ago • 7 comments

I went to limetext.org, and I noticed some pretty serious problems that don't exist on limetext.github.io. I don't know the relationship between these two websites, but I'm pretty sure you guys control limetext.org too. Here's the problems with limetext.org:

  • The "Get the Code" button doesn't work. There's no link.
  • All the bottom links are broken.
  • There's an invisible link to onlinecasinolovers.com, which I assume is anything but good.
  • There's a link that says Netticasino that goes fi.twin.com
  • There's a link that says "Twin" that goes to twin.com.

What the heck happened to it? Is it some knockoff pretender website?

EDIT: This seems to be related to #50 except that it still isn't fixed on limetext.org.

Davester47 avatar May 03 '20 23:05 Davester47

It looks like someone has stolen the website.

www.limetext.org points at an OVH IP address, not GitHub Pages.

WHOIS information shows the domain was created 2019-01-18, when this project is much older than that, so I'm assuming someone else snapped up the name and created a fake version of the site.

tomodwyer avatar May 10 '20 09:05 tomodwyer

Is there any kind of way to get limetext.github.io to rank higher on search engines than this fake one?

Davester47 avatar May 10 '20 18:05 Davester47

I think the domain expired at some point (maybe 4 years ago?) and was registered by someone else. Have a look at this (looks very fishy): https://securitytrails.com/domain/limetext.org/history/a

I don't know if there's anything the devs can do about it because there's already quite some time passed since the registration. Maybe there's a small chance because it's clearly designed in a fraudulent way to generate clicks or for black hat SEO.

Nonetheless they should get rid of all references to this domain. For example, it's still on the GitHub organization page:

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Noir- avatar Jun 16 '20 13:06 Noir-

Done.

zoli avatar Jun 17 '20 05:06 zoli

Still, all project repos have the wrong link E.g.https://github.com/limetext/backend image

psydvl avatar Jul 01 '20 23:07 psydvl

Instead of simply removing the link like what @zoli did on the main project page, I think it would probably be a better idea to replace them with https://limetext.github.io

Davester47 avatar Jul 04 '20 03:07 Davester47

@Davester47 right, I changed them to https://limetext.github.io.

zoli avatar Jul 05 '20 07:07 zoli