I am going to predict that Reddit will soon collapse because it is overrun with conservative minded people. It's starting to become a really hateful community.
RIP Kuro5hin
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Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#22You can still read legendary Kuro5hin contributor localroger's writing here: http://localroger.com/
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#23The Wikipedia page mentions that it was running on Scoop, but doesn't include that Scoop was written by Rusty as the framework for k5. Scoop went on to be used in a few other places, among them HuSi (where a bunch of core k5 folks moved to, though it's now pretty defunct as well).
The most well-known site I'm aware of that used Scoop was DailyKos, which I believe started on WordPress, then moved to Scoop (highly customized and eventually almost entirely rewritten I think), then finally onto its own custom-build CMS. There may have also been one more stage in there.
Source: 3-digit UID on DK, and was a regular way way back when on both k5 and HuSi.
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#24I am going to predict that Reddit will soon collapse because it is overrun with conservative minded people. It's starting to become a really hateful community.
Reddit? Conservative? Are you joking?
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#25Updated Date: 2016-04-28T16:31:29Z Creation Date: 1999-12-12T21:20:28Z Registry Expiry Date: 2016-12-12T21:20:28Z So the registration was transferred to gandi, it wasn't expired and then picked up?
Well, it still has Rusty's name in the non-obscured fields in the Whois data.
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#26Google's cache has approximate 480 story pages still in its cache. The Wayback Machine won't show any results for the site because of its current robots.txt. It'd be great if someone could scrape these pages and provide them as an archive. I am not sure how to do that without running afoul of Google's terms-of-service.
List of URLs: https://dpaste.de/YbEq/raw
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#27Kuro5hin is really what I cut my teeth on before I discovered Wikipedia. I wrote an article on Buddhism, it wasn't that great but I learned a lot!
I sure hope that the articles were kept somewhere - there were some pretty amazing stories. Including the time that one of the contributors made a joke about killing the president and the Secret Service came to his workplace...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This annoys me to no end. It basically means that you can retroactively censor content by buying a domain that was parked for 10 years and then remove the old content with one little robots.txt. All of this regardless of the wishes of the original creators.
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#29> "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.
FWIW, くろ (kuro) is the "kunyomi" of 黒 and しん(shin) is the "onyomi" of 心. Japanese 2-character compound words don't mix onyomi and kunyomi. I don't think there is a character with a "kuro" onyomi or one with a "shin" kunyomi (well, there's 信じる (shinjiru), but that's a reading that doesn't go without the hiragana).
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd not heard of this community before. Before my time, I guess. The idea of publishing something or not is rather interesting. It presumably encouraged much higher quality content.
> It presumably encouraged much higher quality content. Haha, oh boy. You're talking about k5, man. We practically prided ourselves on terrible and meta content. But yes, some of the longer-form stuff was truly interesting. You had to submit to some pretty grueling dissection of your work by a broad group of people, though, and I only front paged a couple articles because I didn't truly understand what was going on.…
After 2005 to 2006 the site became ridiculous. That's because Rusty had the guts ripped out of him when some arsehole photoshopped his wife's image on a pornographic image.
The trolls laughed at it, but it destroyed the site and I really feel that Rusty never had the same attitude toward K5 ever again.
This is why trolling needs to be banned. It's OK to have some fun, but when you start pissing in your own backyard, or let terrible people to take over, then they bully even the founders and everything goes to shit.
Twitter should take note.