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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. never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    probably why its dead

    1. Re: never heard of it by Raxxon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'd say most "geeks" are having that reaction now....

    2. Re: never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      A decade is my rough estimate of how long K5 has been dead, and how long it's been since many old school users left Slashdot. I've been around since the 90s, too, and it seems like a very different community. People aren't interested in how things work or finding clever ways to make things work better. It seems like the focus is so much on social issues now.

    3. Re: never heard of it by Browzer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      a 5 digit palindrome here. A newbie but with style.

  2. Slashdot is not far behind... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A few of us from the first days are still around but I now only check maybe once a week. Story quality is in the toilet, and the discussions are no longer entertaining or enlightening but instead just hatefests that feel like twitter and youtube comments.

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    1. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by Calydor · · Score: 1, Insightful

      There is a time and a place for profanity.

      "All the time" and "everywhere" are not those.

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    2. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Where do you hang out now? I haven't found a decent replacement . . .

      For me I tend to hang out at Ars. They have real journalists there who actually research (**gasp**) and write stories. In general I see things at Ars before they end up here (although I have seen the opposite as well). The only problem with Ars is that the commenting system sucks as it is a pure linear format.

      At times I feel like I am in an abusive relationships with slashdot. The stories have gone down hill, but I haven't seen a better commenting/moderation system elsewhere.

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    3. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by Lawrence_Bird · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't recall seeing this many 4 and 5 digit users in one thread in.. like.. 15 years? more?

      Bottom line: Slashdot is not fresh. I still hit it once or twice a day but rarely is there anything not already seen hours (or days) prior elsewhere. I mean I could live with Timothy if at least the stuff posted on the front page was new and interesting. And on that interesting front.. total loss of focus there too. Too much non-nerd non-news that matters (to nerds). Anything that is going to be front page or high up on CNN, NY Times, etc almost certainly does not belong on /.

    4. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by hairyfeet · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Bullshit. I remember there being a time when you could have a 300 post discussion here when a new file system came out when everybody would be comparing and arguing the various pros and cons of the new file system when compared to what was already out, now?

      "I'm for propaganda puppet liberal you republitard!" "Well I'm for propaganda puppet conservative so you must be stupid!" "You're both nigger faggots!"....THAT is about the intellectual level of discussion we get these days sadly.

      Hell even our trolls were world class back then, anybody remember the FOSSie troll Twitter? Now THERE was a world class nutjob, why he could do a "six degrees" and link anything and everything on the planet to Bill Gates in under 5 moves!

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    5. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      For me I tend to hang out at Ars. They have real journalists there who actually research (**gasp**) and write stories. In general I see things at Ars before they end up here (although I have seen the opposite as well). The only problem with Ars is that the commenting system sucks as it is a pure linear format.

      ARS doing research? You're joking right? Half the stuff in their own stories contradicts actual sources at times. And when you point out the factual inaccuracies with proof commenters come out of the woodwork to claim you're just a troll that's attacking them because reasons. It's pushing it's own social agenda half the time just like /. is, but that shouldn't be a surprise considering who owns them.

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    6. Re:Slashdot is not far behind... by Khyber · · Score: 3, Insightful

      " They have real journalists there who actually research (**gasp**) and write stories."

      Hah! They consistently fail on every LED tech story. Research, my ass.

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  3. How anticlimatic by vadim_t · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If that's really intentional on Rusty's part, I would have liked to have some sort of announcement, and some sort of goodbye. Perhaps a post-mortem analysis. And ideally, have it remain online frozen, as an archive, because in the past there have been many very good articles on it, before it went to shit.

    Of course, the site has already been effectively dead for what, more than a decade now, I think? It's a real pity, because it used to be a really cool place where interesting, and sometimes important (Wikipedia, OpenNIC, etc) discussions took place.

    The place was unique enough that it took me years to find a suitable replacement for it.

  4. Thanks! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    for posting a link to a site that has gone off line.

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  5. The Internet is made of change by backtick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is the way of things. *checks his uid* yeah, /. Has changed, kuro5hin changed, it's part of the gig.