After being neglected by its jackal-faced owner for years, kuro5hin has finally closed down.
At one time it was considered the grown up alternative to slashdot and one of the finest discussion forums of the web. Scoop, the collaborative web technology powering Kuro5hin, was used for a time by several other platforms, most notably Daily Kos.
Sadly the site fell victim to the trolls and started declining in quality after the introduction of the fiction section. It limped along, like the old man of the web, for more than ten years after its decline until May 1, 2016 when it finally closed down forever.
It is survived by tens of users that still used the diary section as their own personal blog.
I hope it gets the archive.org treatment. There's certainly a few posts from around 2004 that I'm likely to need a link too in the future..
(like explanations of 'anonymous' from before the Media and Ebiks discovered it)
Kayden Jenkins
Surprised it lasted this long.
Parker Flores
And Slashdot should've died long ago. It was already becoming garbage before the current web2.0 design existed but it's plumbed depths I never knew were possible since then.
Jose Walker
I used it a lot in it's prime, was did a lot of quality shitposting there, but probably hadnt been there for a decade
Henry Parker
And nobody cared because it was a shitty irrelevant website.
Only big thing they ever did was the troll piece on Natalie Holloway
rusty was a lolcow (before that term was even born) hollyhopdrive was the biggest cunt there and had whiteknight/cuck defenders (prob was a man lmao)
Too bad I can't remember any other names
There actually a few funny ass trolls on there (all of whom hated holly)
John Harris
actually remembered a few
Justin Johnson
...
Easton Campbell
oh shit forgot
Also gay5ers were asshurt at channers maybe you got your feelings hurt on 4chan, which is why you hideout in the website equivalent of a gated community
Jace Murphy
I vaguely remember someone from that site getting asshurt over someone photoshopping pictures of his wife into porn.
Bentley Howard
yeah it was Rusty's (the owner) wife
shit was hilarious Led to the "trollocaust"
can't believe I forgot
talk about total recall. I have memories from 10-15 years ago coming back
