Hi, I've subscribed to the RSS feed of the Website. I haven't clicked/checked on all of the links/articles coming back from the feed, but every one of them that I have clicked open to a 404 page.
For example, right now, I saw perkins, tuios, pomo (and others) where they go to these links:
And all are 404. Was wondering if that's expected, and whether they're supposed to be "live" only after a while?
Thank you
Originally created by @farzadmf on GitHub (Jun 5, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis/issues/709
Hi, I've subscribed to the RSS feed of the Website. I haven't clicked/checked on _all_ of the links/articles coming back from the feed, but every one of them that I _have_ clicked open to a 404 page.
For example, right now, I saw `perkins`, `tuios`, `pomo` (and others) where they go to these links:
- https://awesometui.com/perkins
- https://awesometui.com/tuios
- https://awesometui.com/pomo
And all are 404. Was wondering if that's expected, and whether they're supposed to be "live" only after a while?
Thank you
@farzadmf I did some research into this and this is not an official site of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
It looks like a domain squatter and a crypto scammer trying to launch crypto coins out of popular projects on GitHub.
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@gwilkinsong commented on GitHub (Jun 17, 2026):
@farzadmf I did some research into this and this is **not an official site** of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
It looks like a domain squatter and a crypto scammer trying to launch crypto coins out of popular projects on GitHub.
@gwilkinsong wait, what???!!! 🤯 ... but this Website is in the username page, and when I click the Github icon on https://awesometui.com/, it opens this repo.
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@farzadmf commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2026):
@gwilkinsong wait, what???!!! 🤯 ... but this Website is in the [username page](https://github.com/rothgar), and when I click the Github icon on https://awesometui.com/, it opens this repo.
You mean https://awesometui.com/ is also fake?
Yes. This is not an official site of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
when I click the Github icon on awesometui.com, it opens this repo.
@farzadmf That doesn't mean that @rothgar made it.
I do not see see any information of awesometui.com being officially controlled by @rothgar, so I assume it is a domain squatter / scammer and from some research, it seems this website is affiliated with a crypto scammer.
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@gwilkinsong commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2026):
> You mean awesometui.com is also fake?
Yes. This is **not an official site** of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
> when I click the Github icon on awesometui.com, it opens this repo.
@farzadmf That doesn't mean that @rothgar made it.
I do not see see any information of awesometui.com being **officially** controlled by @rothgar, so I assume it is a domain squatter / scammer and from some research, it seems this website is affiliated with a crypto scammer.
Until I see official confirmation from @rothgar that he controls awesometui.com, I would instead use https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
Ah, so you mean "watching" the repo instead of the Website?
And ... I'm genuinely super curious: what is the domain squatter/scammer getting out of this? Seems like that Website is just listing some tools and providing RSS ... unless ... I guess they "inject" malicious tools or something 🤔
Although I must say ... their trick won't work (at least for RSS posts) since they're always returning a 404 for any new tool they add 😆
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@farzadmf commented on GitHub (Jun 21, 2026):
> This is not an official site
Wow, BIG TIL for me! Still I'm like 🤯
> I would instead use [rothgar/awesome-tuis](https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis?rgh-link-date=2026-06-20T06%3A16%3A17.000Z)
Ah, so you mean "watching" the repo instead of the Website?
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And ... I'm genuinely super curious: what is the domain squatter/scammer getting out of this? Seems like that Website is just listing some tools and providing RSS ... unless ... I guess they "inject" malicious tools or something 🤔
Although I must say ... their trick won't work (at least for RSS posts) since they're always returning a `404` for any new tool they add 😆
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Originally created by @farzadmf on GitHub (Jun 5, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis/issues/709
Hi, I've subscribed to the RSS feed of the Website. I haven't clicked/checked on all of the links/articles coming back from the feed, but every one of them that I have clicked open to a 404 page.
For example, right now, I saw
perkins,tuios,pomo(and others) where they go to these links:And all are 404. Was wondering if that's expected, and whether they're supposed to be "live" only after a while?
Thank you
@gwilkinsong commented on GitHub (Jun 17, 2026):
@farzadmf I did some research into this and this is not an official site of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
It looks like a domain squatter and a crypto scammer trying to launch crypto coins out of popular projects on GitHub.
@farzadmf commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2026):
@gwilkinsong wait, what???!!! 🤯 ... but this Website is in the username page, and when I click the Github icon on https://awesometui.com/, it opens this repo.
You mean https://awesometui.com/ is also fake?
@gwilkinsong commented on GitHub (Jun 20, 2026):
Yes. This is not an official site of awesome-tuis by @rothgar
@farzadmf That doesn't mean that @rothgar made it.
I do not see see any information of awesometui.com being officially controlled by @rothgar, so I assume it is a domain squatter / scammer and from some research, it seems this website is affiliated with a crypto scammer.
Until I see official confirmation from @rothgar that he controls awesometui.com, I would instead use https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
@farzadmf commented on GitHub (Jun 21, 2026):
Wow, BIG TIL for me! Still I'm like 🤯
Ah, so you mean "watching" the repo instead of the Website?
And ... I'm genuinely super curious: what is the domain squatter/scammer getting out of this? Seems like that Website is just listing some tools and providing RSS ... unless ... I guess they "inject" malicious tools or something 🤔
Although I must say ... their trick won't work (at least for RSS posts) since they're always returning a
404for any new tool they add 😆