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You might be surprised to find out that kuro5hin -- k5 -- is still around. Well, not for much longer. Absentee landlord Rusty Foster (temporarily?) blocked new user sign ups and in the process somehow managed to block existing users from logging in.
Dedicated users can edit the HTML to add back the login box (or use a query string). Though once popular, K5 never recovered from the last time Rusty blocked new users (eventually relenting and adding a $5 sign up fee). RIP. Truly a Web 1.0 icon.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday July 26 2015, @10:35AM
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A handful of words about what Kuro5hin is would have been nice. We don't all know everything.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2, Informative) by Kushan on Sunday July 26 2015, @11:15AM
Can confirm this, never heard of it before.
(Score: 4, Informative) by stormwyrm on Sunday July 26 2015, @11:35AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:49PM
That site uses Slash/Slashcode.
As I first visited K5 after it was already in decline, that was the only interesting thing I found about the site.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2, Informative) by ghost on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:01PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @11:55PM
You are correct.
Scoop Debuts [kuro5hin.org]
The similarity of their page layout convinced me they were using Slash.
I also seem to remember a site that listed sites that use Slash and that they included K5.
Looking at your response, I thought I might have simply gotten my verb tense wrong--but it appears that K5 has *never* used Slash.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:07PM
God damns these days don't know shit about shits.
(Score: 3, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:17PM
Get off my lawn.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:56PM
A handful of words about what Kuro5hin is would have been nice. We don't all know everything.
Highlight the text Kuro5hin. Right-click. From the menu that pops up chose Search [default search engine] for Kuro5hin.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:08PM
While most of us are coders some are not, for example HollyHopDrive was a journalist and ktakki is a rock musician. One of the members whose nick I dont recall is an entertainment professional who I gather had something to do with the Star Trek franchise.
Another poster complained of kuro5hin's "incoherence". I expect that's because he is unfamiliar with what writer's actually do. Consider for example James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake".
Some notable k5 stories include "Fuck Natalee Holloway" for which Rusty received death threats, my own "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder" which is on a reading list that the state of California mental health department distributes to its county clinics, localroger's epic suggestion that comment search be implemented with flat files and assembly code, Ogg Frog Magazine and Corpse Disposal Made Simple.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Monday July 27 2015, @05:58AM
We don't all know everything.
Yes we do, for sufficiently broad definitions of "we".