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| Dissolved | October 2013 |
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| Owner | Rusty Foster |
| URL | kuro5hin.org |
| Users | ~10,000 (2005) |
| Launched | December 1999 |
| Current status | Offline (May 1, 2016) |
Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion")[1] was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[2] Articles were created and submitted by users and submitted to a queue for evaluation. Site members could vote for or against publishing an article and once the article had reached a certain number of votes, it was published to the site or deleted from the queue.[3] The site has been described as "a free-for-all of news and opinion written by readers".[4] Around 2005, its membership numbered in the tens of thousands.[3]
On May 1, 2016, the site was closed down permanently with all content taken offline.[5] Foster stated at the time that it might return in the form of a static archive at a later date.[6]
- ^ Boutin, Paul (June 21, 2002). "It Takes a Village to Save a Site". WIRED. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
- ^ name=":0" Retrieved July 18, 2016
- ^ a b Murphy, David (September 20, 2005). "Google's ad network spreads the wealth: here's how Google's AdSense program can make money for your Web site. (INTERNET BUSINESS)". PC Magazine. Vol. 24, no. 16. p. 74. Archived from the original on August 5, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
- ^ Brandt, Andrew (August 2001). "Kuro5hin. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) (Brief Article)". PC World. Vol. 19, no. 8. p. 96.
- ^ "RIP Kuro5hin". Slashdot.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- ^ "Hey so this is Rusty". Hacker News. Archived from the original on June 5, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.