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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 8 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source | bottom

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. Fuzzwah ◴[12 Oct 25 08:18 UTC] No.45556370[source]▶
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.

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2. MilanTodorovic ◴[12 Oct 25 08:41 UTC] No.45556503[source]▶
Are there any spiritual successors?
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3. habosa ◴[12 Oct 25 14:26 UTC] No.45558455[source]▶
Rusty Foster (creator of Kuro5hin) is still writing! https://www.todayintabs.com/
4. jlokier ◴[12 Oct 25 15:34 UTC] No.45558961[source]▶
For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.
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5. senderista ◴[12 Oct 25 18:48 UTC] No.45560683{3}[source]▶
-> lobste.rs
6. amanwithnoplan ◴[12 Oct 25 19:49 UTC] No.45561231[source]▶
The candle that burned twice as bright was really adequacy.org, which sourced their trolls from Kuro5hin.

(Archive here: https://www.inadequacy.org/)

7. Fuzzwah ◴[12 Oct 25 20:15 UTC] No.45561495[source]▶
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.
8. ksherlock ◴[13 Oct 25 20:49 UTC] No.45573189[source]▶
--> husi