I just heard some very sad news on talk radio.
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.
Truly a web icon.
Discuss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609308
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/02/198229
>>54361306
Truly legendary trolling and shitposting.
>>54361306
>one of the finest discussion forums of the web
Yeah, it's called reddit.
never heard of it
literally who
>>54361452
>>54361470
Your underage is showing.
>Launched December 1999
I've been on the internet since 1996 and I've never heard of Kuro5hin.
>On March 25, 2004, Foster closed off new user accounts because a photoshopped pornographic image of his wife had been posted.
top fucking kek
>>54361488
Your down syndrome is showing.
>>54361543
Go fen yourself, nullo.
>>54361488
I was born in '89. That website doesn't seem to be nearly as well known as you think it was.
>>54361562
Well, it was, son.
>>54361579
I used to browse it reguarly and it was basically alt slashdot. Hardly anyone knew about it, had a handful of regulars, never really got popular. It was not a huge site.
>>54361559
I don't speak retard, shitlord.
>>54361367
>shit b8 m8
>>54361718
It was always a fraction of /. but it has moderately large during 2002 and 2003.
>>54361306
What is that MLP tab for?
>>54361844
Mindless Link Propagation.
It was a section for stories that were little more than a bunch of links.
>>54361844
Many Little Penises
You posted there regularly
>>54361937
u mad faget
>>54361844
Measles Licking Penises
>>54361510
>Launched December 1999
same time i got internet access
i also haven't heard of it
>>54361306
>liberal shit hole is dead
Good.
The founder works for dailykos
Kuro5hin was good in the way that 7chan was good.
see, when you start banning your user-base, your shit site tends to die. people do not understand this.
>Kuro5hin
That pile of shit was still around recently? Jesus fuck, it sucked years and years ago.
Nothing of value was lost.
>>54366250
go away /pol/
truly ebin
>>54366440
so never good?
This makes me feel as old as father time.
