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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:47PM (#340922)

    Honestly, while I like it when we get new members, I'd be perfectly fine with SN staying the same size and keeping the same community it has now. I've rarely seen an online community improve by adding more members (after a certain point of course).

    While I get your point, I do think any site that is not growing will inevitably die. The trick, though, is to attract the right kind of new people to the site. We need people who can add insightful comments to the discussion, make interesting submissions to the queue, etc. We definitely don't need certain folks like the APK-guy spamming the comments. Just my $0.02.