[Fuzzwah]

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.

[amanwithnoplan]

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

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

[habosa]

Rusty Foster (creator of Kuro5hin) is still writing! https://www.todayintabs.com/

[MilanTodorovic]

Are there any spiritual successors?

[jlokier]

For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.

[senderista]

-> lobste.rs

[Fuzzwah]

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.

[ksherlock]

--> husi