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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by Y_Y »

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda.

No idea what this means.

Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

#5

Post by CaliforniaKarl »

Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44579265 for background.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

#6

Post by dgl »

Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

I don’t really want to give it credit by linking to it, but this seems to refer to putty[.]org which is using its search ranking to push things unrelated to PuTTY.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by naniwaduni »

Y_Y wrote: post #3

> Unlike other landing pages, this one is run by the PuTTY team itself, and not by a third party with their own agenda. No idea what this means. Anyway Simon Tatham's games are so good I think he gets a pass on anything else he does.

Context: "The domain name putty.org is NOT run by the #PuTTY developers" (https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114846017785770922 discussed before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558328), but by a competitor who historically used the site at that domain to promote their own product.
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