BEWARE: doomemacs.com is not associated with this project

[hlissner]

I had hoped that my fosstodon post was enough of a PSA, but confused emails, DMs, and Discord pings about misinformation on doomemacs.com have begun rolling in, so I thought I'd make this a proper announcement:

doomemacs.com is not associated with me or this project

I was recently made aware of doomemacs.com posing as Doom's official website. I am vehemently opposed to LLM-generated documentation. A hundred times so when it is done without human oversight and becomes more of a hindrance to beginners than a help. It contains...

• Shameless LLM-generated marketing¹,
• Hallucinated misinformation²,
• No indication that the site is unofficial,
• No contact information,
• And shows up on the 1st/2nd pages of DuckDuckGo and Google for "Doom Emacs".

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Otherwise, besides causing confusion, the site seems harmless (no ads, no phishing, no malicious content), but I don't know what the motivation behind it was, so that could change in the future.

doomemacs.org is the one and only official domain for this project.

What can be done?

Besides compete with it with an official site of our own (which is still some months away), we can only spread awareness or report the site on Google/DuckDuckGo/other search engines for misinformation so they don't score as high on results:

Click to see instructions for Google

Click to see instructions for DuckDuckGo

Also try to avoid actually linking to their domain in public spaces; the backlinks could end up helping its SEO.

Be careful out there, folks!

Footnotes

1. I feel slimy reading "4.8/5 Community Rating", "Built for Serious Hackers", and "3x Faster Than Vanilla". ↩

2. E.g. That v3 is already out, that Doom is "3x faster than vanilla" (how do you even measure that?), advertising modules that have already been renamed/removed, many nuances lost to LLM paraphrasing, over-representation of LLM and Evil integration, etc. ↩