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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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Do not use if foil seal is broken.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GlennC on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:34PM
I was one of the earlier members of Kuro5hin. As I recall, it started as a reaction to the perception that Slashdot was becoming too commercial. I wrote a couple of stories for the site, and contributed comments when I thought I could add to the conversation.
From the beginning, Rusty tried to say that it wasn't really "his" site, that it was "ours," and that we could make it what we wanted. While I thought that was a noble idea, I pointed out to him that I had no financial or commercial interest in the site, and neither did most people. Therefore, while we could have a voice, Rusty and his admins should provide a more structured editorial point of view.
As the site went on, I found the stories were less about "Technology and Culture From the Trenches," and more about various random musings. After a while, I lost interest and moved on to other aspects of my life.
I all but forgot about K5's existence, save for the occasional /. story, at which time I would check back in (surprisingly, my login still worked after several years absence) and find that very little had changed. If anything, the musings seemed even more random and vapid, so I did not return.
I advise the owners and admins of Soylent to look at the history of K5 and take the lessons learned to heart. As much as you may want to make it "our site," never forget that you need this to work more than we do.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:34PM
I think the editors should be careful about posting political stories in which either TFA or TFS is clearly biased, unless there is a decent rebuttal or opposing view (perhaps offered by the editor) in the summary.
Other than that, I'm not in the "It better be News for Nerds" camp.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:50PM
Is to just completely rape and lampoon any subject brought up with factual information. The bias part doesn't matter as long as the citations are true and unbiased, even if the story isn't. Just look at politics. If you can get stories from RT, BBC, (Insert some US rag here), Al Jazeera, and whoever else, you will eventually end up with a bunch of biases that will eventually balance out. The trick is covering the stories from multiple angles and not using a single story as your sole citation.