Why Doesn't This Surprise GOTV?

 Or 'why don't these' ...

Our attempt a few minutes ago to create a user account on 45's Truth Social 'platform' failed execrably.  We were trying to enter this inner sanctum because of a paradigm learned while working for former U S Congressman Joe Sestak: know your adversary.

GOTV can't imagine a political figure more at odds than 45 with progressive politics like those of Rep. Sestak.  Nor can we envision a less professional web design and implementation than Truth Social.  For instance, in its zeal to validate our email address, it insisted on sending us an SMS message, without inquiring if that was our preferred means of communicating.  Had we made an error of that nature in any of our projects in grad school, we'd have been roasted, and rightfully so.  Design Principle #1: design for your user, not for your convenience.

But ironically, Truth Social isn't without technical competence.  Not because of any decision on 45's part, but rather because of one of the tools his techies used in putting the site together.  That tool is of a category of software called open source.

GOTV has always been a devotee of open source, and has installed and configured some of the best, including Linux, MySQL, and Apache.  Maybe we should volunteer to maintain and upgrade TS's underlying operating system, Nginx.  It would be shame if it were to become subject to hackers, despite its having been developed by and until very recently used almost exclusively in Russia ...