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As a union organizer with Hack Club staff, this is only the surface - the things that are clear to the end consumer. It gets a whole lot worse on the inside; from payment below minimum wage, mandatory overtime beyond child labor law, hiring kids as contractors to deny them rights, union busting & retaliation and a blatant disrespect for members and community democracy despite pretending to be `teen-led.` I'm not going to re-hash the whole thing here, I've written an article on my blog, but Hack Club is a deeply misleading "charity" that suckers teens in trying to build a better world and funnels them towards supporting our ever-rapid decline into techno-fascism at the hands of the wealthy elite funding them.
To answer the first question, yep it's just "oblong".
We exist so people don't have to go to freenom when they want their own but free domain. I've used Freenom in the past, and they are the worst experience.
but the sprig team just wants to have fun. its exciting for them to NOT use a major engine. It feels new and exciting to work on things that are new, and not go along with the crowd. Time might be money, but we're still teenagers after all.