PuTTY has a new website • Hacker News Board

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by throaway920181 » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

I haven't used Putty since I stopped using Windows for anything serious (in the early 00s.) It was my favorite quick and dirty SSH and serial client before then though!

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by userbinator » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

neuralkoi wrote: post #35

userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

I agree, there's some good alternatives available too of about the same length (if you include name + TLD): puttyclient.com puttyofficial.com puttytools.com puttydownloads.com downloadputty.org

Those actually feel spammy too; e.g. seeing "official" or "download" in a name has always triggered a suspicion, because normally there's no need to specially say your site is "official" or "download" besides to mislead.

Then again, I may be biased due to always remembering PuTTY's official page being someone's personal site hosted on a .org.uk server.

There is actually a mirror at https://www.puttyssh.org/

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by snoopen » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

neuralkoi wrote: post #35

userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

I agree, there's some good alternatives available too of about the same length (if you include name + TLD): puttyclient.com puttyofficial.com puttytools.com puttydownloads.com downloadputty.org

anything with "download" in the domain name looks scammy to me

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by throaway920181 » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

oguz-ismail wrote: post #16

MortyWaves wrote: post #15

Ever since Windows gained Terminal and OpenSSH, my usage of Putty has almost entirely ceased except for serial for embedded systems work. Then I realised Putty ships with a CLI version which I now use in Terminal for accessing serial.

> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

I've only used it through RDP on Wayland and it's been fine visually. Downloading it can be a challenge if you don't know where to look (Github, not Microsoft's App Store...)

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by jachee » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

throaway920181 wrote: post #37

pharrington wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The man himself also posted about it on his social media https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115025974777386803

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

So… what would be a trusted domain, for you, then?

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by CalRobert » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

They were originally a protection racket to shake down brands on the idea they’d have to register them all. Donuts even had the Domain protected marks list which let you pay to block registration but not have the domain yourself

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by andrewflnr » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:22 AM UTC

throaway920181 wrote: post #37

pharrington wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The man himself also posted about it on his social media https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115025974777386803

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

It's definitionally the correct domain for Simon Tatham's social media. What are you expecting here?

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by zaphirplane » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:22 AM UTC

jachee wrote: post #45

throaway920181 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

So… what would be a trusted domain, for you, then?

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by MortyWaves » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:22 AM UTC

oguz-ismail wrote: post #31

recursive wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first time I ever saw it, the text already looked better than cmd.exe via conhost.

https://imgur.com/a/qA1fr71 Something wrong with my eyes? Doesn't cmd.exe look smoother in this screenshot?

I find the Terminal more readable because the white seems brighter in your screenshots

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by neuralkoi » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #42

neuralkoi wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, there's some good alternatives available too of about the same length (if you include name + TLD): puttyclient.com puttyofficial.com puttytools.com puttydownloads.com downloadputty.org

Those actually feel spammy too; e.g. seeing "official" or "download" in a name has always triggered a suspicion, because normally there's no need to specially say your site is "official" or "download" besides to mislead. Then again, I may be biased due to always remembering PuTTY's official page being someone's personal site hosted on a .org.uk server. There is actually a mirror at https://www.puttyssh.org/

I also noticed https://getputty.org is as well.