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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. I remember that site by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember it was hot in 2001. I remember visiting again in 2004 and it was desolate. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

    You know what site I really miss? Segfault.org. That was seriously funny stuff, and ahead of its time. Too bad the hard drive on which it ran crashed and left an unrecoverable mess.

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  2. Re: never heard of it by B'Trey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not sure when I started following Slashdot but it was back when your had a numerical karma score and it was a game to try to get it as high as possible. My Ars Technica account was created April of '99, so Slashdot would have been around the same time. I was quite familiar with Kuro5hin (pronounced like "Corrosion," for those not familiar with it, a sort of play on the name of Rusty, who was to Kuro5hin what Cmdr Taco was to /.) but it had a much wider focus than /., and I always felt it was a bit stuffier than here. It hasn't been relevant for a long time but it does make me feel old to know it's been taken off life support.

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  3. Re: never heard of it by mysidia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In some ways, it was better than Slashdot and had features that Slashdot still doesn't have.

    Yeah, but for some reason a few years back the activity level seemed to have suddenly dropped to nearly zero as far as new articles were concerned (Not counting the Diaries section).

    I think it was a great website that suddenly stopped producing content, for some reason?

    I guess I had forgotten they existed years ago...... I'm not sure exactly at what point I stopped visiting K5 and come back to Slashdot, but I guess the writing has been on the wall for K5 for a long time

    It's just a real shame to see such a disappointing final outcome of permanent death, rather than a rennaissance.....