To be fair, while the whole thing feels a bit glowie, my cached login credentials took me right in, and the sticky post there explains what's up. If it had bugged me to create a new account or re-login then I'd be a bit more worried, but for now I'm accepting it as legit.

Because this means that either:

1. The entire site is compromised, all the way down to the mods on every sub-Win site, and the whole place now can be seen glowing from space. OR

2. The sticky is legit, and understandable given that the one dude who owned the domain could completely fuck the entire user base of of TD by forcing a redirect to anywhere else in the world.

Occam's Razor points to the second being the most likely case.

tl;dr of the sticky: the domain of "thedonald.win" was owned by a former mod who left and promised to transfer ownership. He didn't, so they created a new one and are redirecting traffic to the new space.

To be fair, while the whole thing feels a bit glowie, my cached login credentials took me right in, and the sticky post there explains what's up. If it had bugged me to create a new account or re-login then I'd be a bit more worried, but for now I'm accepting it as legit.

So that means that either:

1. The entire site is compromised, all the way down to the mods on every sub-Win site, and the whole place now can be seen glowing from space. OR

2. The sticky is legit, and understandable given that the one dude who owned the domain could completely fuck the entire user base of of TD by forcing a redirect to anywhere else in the world.

Occam's Razor points to the second being the most likely case.

tl;dr of the sticky: the domain of "thedonald.win" was owned by a former mod who left and promised to transfer ownership. He didn't, so they created a new one and are redirecting traffic to the new space.

To be fair, while the whole thing feels a bit glowie, my cached login credentials took me right in, and the sticky post there explains what's up. If it had bugged me to create a new account or re-login then I'd be a bit more worried, but for now I'm accepting it as legit.

tl;dr of the sticky: the domain of "thedonald.win" was owned by a former mod who left and promised to transfer ownership. He didn't, so they created a new one and are redirecting traffic to the new space.