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by sandGorgon 2689 days ago
your examples are weird - and ill try to explain if i wasnt able to. I'm not saying that the blog is bad and you are explaining why the blog is good.

I'm saying it is hosted on blogspot and there is another main site which is a pypy.org . People dont think the way you do. Try it out - ask 10 people if they would open this blogspot page and ever click on the donate link. Pypy's blog is not shady - blogspot as a free hosting service is shady.

your examples of mozilla, etc blogs are super orthogonal - they are hosted on an authoritative domain. Again, I'm repeating - it has nothing to do with pypy. Its about blogspot.

You are again attacking my suggestion of static site - the reason i suggested that was because it was a python based site generator with a CMS. you can try to do a wix site or whatever. As long as its an authoritative domain.

Its not about me - its how people thing. You should go and check.
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eesmith 2689 days ago
Now you, "ask 10 people if they would open [the pypy.org] page and ever click on the donate link".

I think the answer is "very unlikely", which is why I don't think your example is a useful diagnostic.

I also don't think "authoritative domain" is meaningful. What does it mean to be "authoritative" and how do people tell if a domain is authoritative?

I gave the examples of blog.biolab.si and orange.biolab.si - is "biolab.si" authoritative enough to know that both subdomains are part of the same project, if pointed to blog.biolab.si ?

Let's stay in the same top-level domain. Is github.com authoritative? What about gitlab.com? If so, what does that mean? That we can trust paths under that domain to be part of the project?

I note that https://github.com/donate and https://gitlab.com/donate both exist, but neither are ways to donate to the respective projects. So the answer is clearly "no".

Indeed, it looks like someone could set up https://gitlab.com/gitlab_blog as a place to describe GitLab development, and set up https://gitlab.com/donate as a way to donate, and yet have nothing to do with GitLab.

So if someone read a blog post under gitlab.com/gitlab_blog/, then they still can't trust the donate link but must instead, as you wrote earlier "go to Google, search for [gitlab] and then click the link and then donate" .. though neither takes donations on their home page.

How is the PyPy situation any worse by not hosting the blog on a non-authoritative URL?

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