358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.313s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Fuzzwah ◴[12 Oct 25 08:18 UTC] No.45556370[source]▶

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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1. amanwithnoplan ◴[12 Oct 25 19:49 UTC] No.45561231[source]▶

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The candle that burned twice as bright was really adequacy.org, which sourced their trolls from Kuro5hin.

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

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