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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

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: 2, Informative) by ghost on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:01PM

    by ghost (4467) on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:01PM (#213884) Journal
    K5 doesn't use Slash, it uses Scoop [scoopdev.org]. DailyKos used it for a while. Much like k5, scoop is pretty much dead these days.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @11:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @11:55PM (#214019)

    You are correct.
    Scoop Debuts [kuro5hin.org]

    Scoop [...] borrows many ideas from slash. It does not, however, use any code from the slash distribution, unless you count the database structures, which are only slightly modified from slash's. But the perl is all fresh and shiny.

    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_