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RIP Kuro5hin (kuro5hin.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the technology-and-culture,-from-the-trenches dept.

themusicgod1 writes: Can we please get a moment of silence? Long-time sister site to Slashdot, Kuro5hin has finally gone offline.

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  1. Re: never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    All the old school Slashdotters remember K5 and understand why this is a sad day. None of the new people have heard of it. In some ways, it was better than Slashdot and had features that Slashdot still doesn't have. As I recall, users voted on the stories that showed up on the front page. There were trolls, but the flame warriors and crapflooders weren't tolerated. I didn't post on K5 very much, but I sure appreciate it. I wonder if, in ten years, people will have the same reaction to Slashdot that you're having to K5.

  2. I don't agree by Kethinov · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdot was on the decline, but I'm actually optimistic about the new owner's chances of succeeding at turning the ship around because of their commitment to listening to the community for the first time in far too long.

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    You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
  3. Re: never heard of it by B'Trey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. I'm an old school Slashdotter since 1998 and I don't know anything about Kuro5hin aside from the name, which I still am unsure of how to pronounce. Kurofivehin? Kurofhin? Kuro 5: Hin?

    Corrosion

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    "The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others." Thomas Jefferson.

  4. Re: never heard of it by Draco · · Score: 4, Informative

    If I recall correctly, there were several thousand accounts created on the first day of user registration. With deference towards your UID, the difference between 100 and 1000 was like an hour. :)

  5. Re: never heard of it by Pseudonym · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wasn't there something dodgy with Rusty as well?

    No. Everyone knew that Rusty was blowing subscription/donations on yacht wax and monocle polish, and that's the way everyone liked it.

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    sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
  6. Re:Prime by DahGhostfacedFiddlah · · Score: 5, Informative

    And I just found it on Google cache. Glad I could grab it before it disappears forever:

    http://webcache.googleusercont...

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    Last post!
  7. I have some of k5 archived by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wrote a k5 screen scraper, and have 95% of k5 diaries, unfortunately I don't have any stories.
    Date range for my archive is: 2001-1-4 to 2015-7-22
    For a total of 161,942 diaries.

    Here is a summary of what I have in my archive.

    Here are some tables showing which kurons had the highest number of posts over the lifetime of k5.