I looked it up, here's the Google Analytics ID if anyone's curious: https://builtwith.com/relationships/tag/UA-526724

Looks like Dave V. removed all the websites. I wonder if the guy ever though it'd follow him around like this.

You're famous Dave!

He’s Wikipedia famous, but I’m not sure how relevant he is in the community to warrant it. Maybe he doesn’t actually exist, and this is all a just a ruse?

I’d be interested to see if there’s any linkages between contributors to those two pages.

That was an interesting rabbit hole. Pretty hard to deny that connection, given their background.

It does somewhat ruin the puzzle though, and still doesn't actually solve it.

Yep, that's the one.