This is not the official site. At the bottom it says:

"© 2026 lazygit.dev — Unofficial site. Not affiliated with the official lazygit project or Jesse Duffield. "

The official site is the GitHub repository [0]

[0] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

As someone else noted, the site isn't affiliated with the project it's promoting. So there are two distinct "they"s in play here. No idea why that's the case, but it feels sus.

Wow, you are right. I checked the repository out for myself and it has like two or three screens just of ads and sponsor plugs before any content.

I don't know about anybody else, but IMO it's far superior to ask for donations after delivering value rather than before. That way maybe someone who likes the content can donate once satisfied, rather than deciding "no" in advance.

Same as with the tmux.app website. I looked around and I don't understand who's making these vibecoded websites.

This is something I’ve seen before. Someone is registering domain names related to open source projects and then ‘creating’ slop websites about the projects. Not sure what the play is, or whether this falls into that category, but it’s really weird and takes control away from open source maintainers in a scary way. Maybe it’s extortion or maybe it’s an malware thing. I highly doubt it’s out of the goodness of someone’s heart.

Open source maintainers shouldn’t have to register their projects as trademarks/proactively register domains to avoid this, but that seems like the only strategy?

Something else to try if you're a fan of alternative git interfaces is Jujutsu. It's CLI, and it's more of its own interface, but it's very Git-compatible, other than submodules. You pull from and push to Git remotes.