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I remember refreshing slashdot to see the announcement introducing accounts. Teenage me decided to be one of the "the concept of accounts on this site is dumb"

I remember refreshing slashdot to see the announcement introducing accounts. Teenage me decided to be one of the "the concept of accounts on this site is dumb" folks. (For months after slashdot introduced accounts there were all sorts of AnonymousCowards talking about how dumb the idea was). Eventually I relented and got my 5 digit uid. Years later I would cringe thinking about it, knowing I had an opportunity for a 3 or 4 digit one (when it was still cool and relevant to have such a thing). These days the fact that my reddit account is almost old enough to drive, and my HN account is 14.25 just makes me feel old :D. The place I really miss is kuro5hin. That site was a gem.

elihu 5y ago
Kuro5hin was amazing until the trolls took over. I really liked the idea of people writing stories and have them subject to editorial comments before they go live. That's sort of what my mental model of what citizen journalism should look like, and what modern scientific journals should be like. I haven't seen anyone do anything quite like it since, which is a shame. Another site, less known than kuro5hin that was great for awhile was called Jyte. You just post whatever random statement you want, and people can vote "agree" or "disagree". The community was amazing. It was kind of like a game where you try to find some issue where reasonable people are roughly equally split. It was also something where you could just interject any topic you like for any reason. Maybe that's what people get out of twitter -- I don't use it myself.