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Having never heard of Kuro5hin, I decided to google it. If it ever had a golden age, it must have fallen far. The current front page reads like a mix of 4chan

Having never heard of Kuro5hin, I decided to google it. If it ever had a golden age, it must have fallen far. The current front page reads like a mix of 4chan, freerepublic, and the occasional tidbit of interesting content. Seriously, a selection of headlines: "OFFICIAL NOTICE: SITE CLOSED DUE TO AIDS" "Judiciary Abdicated. Republic Dead. All Hail Emperor Obama" "The New York Times Editorial Board Should Be Executed For Treason" "Our lunatic Military" What kind of content did it have originally?

_delirium 16y ago
It's sort of a dive bar these days; a surprising proportion of the good posters are still there, but they just post different things, while they post "serious" stuff on their blogs or somewhere else. Most discussion goes on in the diaries (which are also dive-bar-ish, mixture of serious and unserious chat), while the front-page is a bit of an active joke. Hasn't had much serious content in probably 3-4 years, with the occasional exception. (Actually that's a strangely common thing on the internet; the offensive-joker and troll types sometimes are the same people as the good-technical-content types. For example, the Rands of http://www.randsinrepose.com http://www.randsinrepose.com is also the Rands of http://www.jerkcity.com. http://www.jerkcity.com.) As a half joke, I collected a bibliography of k5 articles that have been cited in academic papers, which includes some of the better ones: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 , http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360
Perceval 16y ago
I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long article about the decline of online community, which includes some retrospective about k5's decline as well: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000

_delirium 16y ago

It's sort of a dive bar these days; a surprising proportion of the good posters are still there, but they just post different things, while they post "serious" stuff on their blogs or somewhere else. Most discussion goes on in the diaries (which are also dive-bar-ish, mixture of serious and unserious chat), while the front-page is a bit of an active joke. Hasn't had much serious content in probably 3-4 years, with the occasional exception. (Actually that's a strangely common thing on the internet; the offensive-joker and troll types sometimes are the same people as the good-technical-content types. For example, the Rands of http://www.randsinrepose.com http://www.randsinrepose.com is also the Rands of http://www.jerkcity.com. http://www.jerkcity.com.) As a half joke, I collected a bibliography of k5 articles that have been cited in academic papers, which includes some of the better ones: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 , http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360

Perceval 16y ago

I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long article about the decline of online community, which includes some retrospective about k5's decline as well: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000