That site claims to be "self-funded" and by "an American citizen" (singular), yet it's very obvious this was made by a decently funded team. It's very well-designed, comes with a slogan, each point has a summary header, details, and a citation, juxtaposition with professional photographs of Harris laughing, and then a disclaimer at the bottom clearly vetted by lawyers. Oh, and there's even a link to a sister site for Biden, complete with a storefront with more catchy slogans on t-shirts. Highly suspicious to say the least. I wonder who's behind it.
While I don't remember his username, the person who set up joebiden.info site was an active user of thedonald.win (formerly reddit's /r/The_Donald), and promoted it there and answered questions back during the primarys. Surely since his site exploded in popularity he's gotten some help though.
HN is a site populated largely by people with the exact skills necessary to make something like this, solo, in a relatively short time frame. I see absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe it’s anything but one individual’s project that they happen to be passionate about.
I first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.
I don't for a second doubt that a single person in this age could spin up a site. In fact, looking at the source, it shows that it's Wordpress. However, even the best webdev has their blind spots, but this site somehow covers them all: seeing the need for a slogan, no grammar/style issues in the writing, all claims are sourced, even the disclaimer, etc. Also, the whole storefront thing is very sus, as it seems the point is to spread the slogans. In fact, there's even a new feature at the bottom of the page to "send this to a friend".
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 48.8 ms ] threadI first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.