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Kuro5hin is Dead

posted by takyon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the 死ぬ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:

The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.

I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by butthurt on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:05AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:05AM (#340768) Journal

    The source for this story is Wikipedia, and Wikipedia's source is a Slashdot story [slashdot.org] that says:

    themusicgod1 [slashdot.org] writes:
    Can we please get a moment of silence? Long-time sister site to Slashdot, Kuro5hin has finally gone offline.

    It may be that themusicgod1 saw that the domain is parked and concluded from that fact that it'll never come back. I'm not aware that themusicgod1 has any information beyond having seen the parking page. It's possible this is a temporary outage for reasons such as: the owner didn't pay the hosting bill, the site is being moved to a new hosting service, the site was hacked, there was a hardware failure, there was a DDoS attack, or a software update went wrong.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:30PM (#340855)

    There's a bit more information from the owner at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612648 [ycombinator.com]:

    Hey so this is Rusty -- What happened was basically that Internap shut down the data center we were in and had to move the servers, and I conspicuously failed to Deal With Things around that. The content is probably not gone forever, but it may be a little while before it reappears. There's a very good chance that it will reappear in the form of an archive of static html pages though, not a live community. So if you'd like to, this is probably a good time to mourn what it was, although in that sense K5 has clearly been over for years.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:00PM (#340900)

      What happened was basically that Internap shut down the data center we were in and had to move the servers, and I conspicuously failed to Deal With Things around that.

      In response to losing Kuro5hin, Internap's share price dropped over 12% today. [yahoo.com]