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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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Francis on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:45PM
I just got here recently, and on the whole I have nothing to complain about. It's a lot more like Slashdot was when I first registered over a decade ago. Probably even a bit better.
Even before the stupid Beta stuff Slashdot was on a downward spiral. Nothing, including the quality of trolling, was improving and I don't see it getting any better. There's still a small enough number of people that are actually a bit interested in discussion that it works. But the site operators over there don't care so things like the super-long comment trolling goes on unabated when they could easily just put some code into the site to collapse all but the first dozen or so lines and make things readable. Sometimes there's be a dozen screens worth of those posts to skip through in order to get to actual posts. And those posts themselves have devolved into worthless garbage in most cases.
The only saving grace of /. lately is that there's some interesting articles. But, even there it takes so long to get them out of the firehose that it's not terribly useful.