Comment by Fuzzwah
4 months ago
Kuro5hin
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
I was a hold out on smartphones for a while and I used to print out k5 articles to read while afk... Just such an amazing collection of people sharing ideas and communal moderation, editing and up voting.
I learned about so many wierd and wonderful things from that site.
The candle that burned twice as bright was really adequacy.org, which sourced their trolls from Kuro5hin.
(Archive here: https://www.inadequacy.org/)
Rusty Foster (creator of Kuro5hin) is still writing! https://www.todayintabs.com/
Are there any spiritual successors?
For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.
-> lobste.rs
Similar to jlokier's response, I ended up here after k5 went away. HN fills my geek interests pretty well, and over the last few years I've found that "long form video essays" on YT, audiobooks / podcasts fill my desire for learning about other random topics.
--> husi