The K5 diaries are still going back and forth, that's interesting.

fencepost · on July 6, 2015

Huh. There's a blast from the past.

I get occasional reminder spam of my email address used for k5 having been harvested at some point, but looking at those diaries doesn't fill me with a desire to return there.

Maybe to HuSi at some point.

MichaelCrawford · on July 6, 2015

Kuro5hin's alexa rank is about 300,000 also many stories have significant pagerank. One can see from google trends that k5 is a popular site to read, but the five dollar one-time troll suppression fee discourages new members.

chris_wot · on July 6, 2015

I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.

MichaelCrawford · on July 6, 2015

That fee was established to keep a lid on Jason Pawloski, no one else.

Unfortunately, five dollars is far beyond the means of much of the earth's population.