[Ecco]

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]

Domains are cheap. Often free for one year.

[Ecco]

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...

[ReverseCold]

> 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]

> 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.

[TeMPOraL]

> 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]

Ha, interesting! I always assumed a .org was at least a dollar. Mind sharing a link?

[TeMPOraL]

Don't have a free "org" source; maybe they never was. Free domains I got were under national TLD.

[rhexs]

Guessing some other company involved with packaging formats?

[jbicha]

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.