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RIP Kuro5hin
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Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#12> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion" Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..
Wow, same here. Thought it was pronounced: KEER-oh-shin or keer-OH-shin
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#13Kuro5hin was great in the very early days. A good, maybe somewhat more technical companion to Slashdot. At one point it started devolving into a collaborative blog with bad op-eds on politics, and fanfiction.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#14First there was Slashdot, but CmdrTaco insisted on picking the stories for us. He called it an "omelet".
Kuro5hin came along to fix this, but discouraged posts that were just links to pages elsewhere on the web. IIRC, this was called "link farming". How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many.
Digg then encouraged links, but shot itself in the foot with a stupid redesign.
Nowadays, reddit is king because it avoided the obvious mistakes of its predecessors.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#15I thought I remember it was already announced years ago by Rusty Foster that updates were stopped. Still it's one of those classic internet sites I frequented - just like the orange black freshmeat.net
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#16First there was Slashdot, but CmdrTaco insisted on picking the stories for us. He called it an "omelet". Kuro5hin came along to fix this, but discouraged posts that were just links to pages elsewhere on the web. IIRC, this was called "link farming". How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many. Digg then encouraged links, but sh…
> Nowadays, reddit is king because it avoided the obvious mistakes of its predecessors.
reddit even seem to have found a way to deal with obnoxius moderators - allowing multiple subreddits
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#17Kuro5hin ran a block-all in their robots.txt[0] so this is more historic internet content that will dissapear into the abyss. Anyone know of a mirror or an effort to mirror and host the site? [0] http://www.kuro5hin.org/robots.txt
The robots.txt you see now is probably the one on the server "parking" the domain, and not that of the original site. A "site:kuro5hin.org" query shows results, so I'm guessing the original one isn't a block-all.
Nothing via the wayback machine... :-(
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kuro5hin.org
All that lost content...
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The robots.txt you see now is probably the one on the server "parking" the domain, and not that of the original site. A "site:kuro5hin.org" query shows results, so I'm guessing the original one isn't a block-all.
Nothing via the wayback machine... :-( http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kuro5hin.org All that lost content...
IIRC, a (current) robots.txt retroactively will remove public access to the Archive. RIP.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#19> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion" Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..
Amusingly enough, if you read it as "kuro-shin" that could correspond to the Japanese characters 黒心, which literally translates to "black heart". That's what I thought the name was supposed to be too.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#20Kuro5hin was great in the very early days. A good, maybe somewhat more technical companion to Slashdot. At one point it started devolving into a collaborative blog with bad op-eds on politics, and fanfiction.
The last part is painfully true. I came back a few years ago to check if K5 is still alive and what does it look like and could hardly figure out exactly what the article was about. Reality and fiction strangely mashed together in a very chaotic op-ed.