It's sort of a dive bar these days; a surprising proportion of the good posters are still there, but they just post different things, while they post "serious" stuff on their blogs or somewhere else. Most discussion goes on in the diaries (which are also dive-bar-ish, mixture of serious and unserious chat), while the front-page is a bit of an active joke. Hasn't had much serious content in probably 3-4 years, with the occasional exception.
(Actually that's a strangely common thing on the internet; the offensive-joker and troll types sometimes are the same people as the good-technical-content types. For example, the Rands of http://www.randsinrepose.com is also the Rands of http://www.jerkcity.com.)
(Actually that's a strangely common thing on the internet; the offensive-joker and troll types sometimes are the same people as the good-technical-content types. For example, the Rands of http://www.randsinrepose.com is also the Rands of http://www.jerkcity.com.)
As a half joke, I collected a bibliography of k5 articles that have been cited in academic papers, which includes some of the better ones: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/12/8/23637/9295 , http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/10/17/5512/5360