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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:48PM
Those first twenty years go by so fast, don't they Sonny? Come back and tell us what the second twenty were like, in a few years. Right now, get off the lawn. That's a good boy - DON'T FORGET TO WRITE - your mother, not me.
PREACH ON BROTHA!
About halfway through the second twenty. It's an uncomfortable combination of confident and versatile mastery and crushing apathy.