TheDonald.win
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Type of site | Forum |
|---|---|
| URL | https://TheDonald.win |
| Advertising | None |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to post, comment, and upvote/downvote |
| Launched | November 21st, 2019 |
| Written in | Java, Spring framework |
TheDonald.win is an independent far-right internet forum where community participants create discussions and memes supportive of U.S. president Donald Trump.[1][2] It was created as a successor to r/The_Donald after the subreddit was quarantined by Reddit in June 2019. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up by other members. The website has been labelled "a magnet for extreme discourse" by the Financial Times.[1]
As of August 12th 2020, TheDonald.win ranks as the 1,185th most visited website in the United States and 6,396th worldwide, according to Alexa Internet.[3]
Site Overview
TheDonald.win is a website comprising user-generated content in a bulletin board system. Similar to Reddit, users can upvote or downvote posts and comments. Upon upvoting a post, an animation of bricks being laid appears, followed by a picture of Donald Trump, a reference to Donald Trump's campaign promise to construct a much larger and fortified border wall.[citation needed]
Popularity
TheDonald.win has been growing in size since its founding, with popular posts gaining thousands of upvotes in only a few hours and with a consistent increase in traffic based on their Alexa Internet ranking. As of July 2020, TheDonald.win was averaging 34,800 comments and 4,200 posts per day. Over the entire month of July, TheDonald.win received 1,046,349 comments and 125,528 posts. According to the site administrators, TheDonald.win receives double the number of pageviews r/The_Donald received before it was shut down.[4]
Users and Moderators
Creating an account with TheDonald.win is free and does not require an email address. Registered users can comment, vote, and post, while unregistered users cannot. If an email address is provided, it can be used to recover the account in the event that the user does not remember the password. Without an email address, there is no way to recover an account.
TheDonald.win is overseen by moderators, who are volunteers tasked with enforcing the site's rules. Moderators are unpaid.
Posts and Comments
Posts on TheDonald.win can consist of images uploaded directly to the site or hosted via another service such as Imgur, links to external websites, or text posts which loosely follow the Markdown language. Links to some sites such as Twitter, YouTube, or Streamable are automatically formatted so that they embed directly into the page. Comments on TheDonald.win are text-only, however they also follow the Markdown language.
The ability to downvote posts on the site was removed, so posts can only be upvoted. Users retain the ability to downvote comments, however.
Like many other internet forums, posts and comments can be reported for review by the moderators if a user suspects that it violates the site's rules. This is called a "Deport" on the site, a reference to President Trump's campaign promise to increase border security, which could result in illegal aliens being deported from the country.
Origins
TheDonald.win was created on November 21, 2019, by moderators of r/The_Donald. After Reddit quarantined r/The_Donald, moderators of the subreddit promoted TheDonald.win through the use of sticky posts. Moderators touted the site as a backup to the subreddit in the event that it was banned. The promotion caused the site to rapidly gain users. Another surge of users was caused on June 29, 2020, when the subreddit was banned by Reddit in a purge of around 2000 communities.[5]
The website has been likened to Gab and 8kun insomuch as it was created in response to "pressure from mainstream sites to adhere to content policies around hate speech".[2]
References
- ^ a b Venkataramakrishnan, Siddharth (11 August 2020). "Far-right finds new online home in TheDonald.win". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 August 2020. (Subscription required.)
- ^ a b Fischer, Sare (26 November 2019). "The next pro-Trump social media network". Axios. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ "thedonald.win Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Win is winning: did Reddit really think they could kill us? - The Donald". thedonald.win. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
- ^ Roose, Kevin (2020-06-30). "Reddit's C.E.O. on Why He Banned 'The_Donald' Subreddit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-06.