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Oh, man, Kuro5hin! That was such a great, diverse, welcoming site for a couple of years. So sad what it descended into.
by jrmg 9y ago
Oh, man, Kuro5hin! That was such a great, diverse, welcoming site for a couple of years. So sad what it descended into.
- chris_wot 9y agoFor anyone who wonders why HN mods are overly strict, then note that Kuro5hin tolerated trolls and they utterly destroyed the site. It doesn't exist any more.
- dredmorbius 9y agoIt had limped along until a year or so back when the server finally fell over. The domain is parked now. But yeah, the trolls pretty much ruined it, life lesson. Rusty turned up running a Mastodon instance, though I haven't seen him for a few months.
- wowtip 9y agoThe change in direction of content of kuro5hin, is that the trolls you refer to? I just visited sporadically and noticed focus drifted from tech related and interesting to political and sometimes into conspiracy theory areas around the time when I stopped visiting.
- dredmorbius 9y agoNot OP, but that was a significant part of it, yes. Both the quality / topic of posts, and of discussion, faded quickly.
- jiggunjer 9y agoSame happened to usenet. Too much noise.
- nrdgrl 9y agoOh Kuro5hin. I miss blixco.