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How Quora Died (slate.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (3 children)

For me I hated Quora because of how locked down it is. Want to view another question on the site? Must register an account first! No fucking thanks. It was always nagging about creating an account.

Because of this I actively ignored Quora results anytime I googled something.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Umm.. expert sexchange?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Experts Exchange, basically if stackoverflow was quora. Can only see questions even when logged in and you'd have to pay a pretty penny to get access to any answer. Or you could collect enough points to access the answer you need by writing answers yourself (ridiculously many points, think weeks of answering).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Oh damn, experts exchange. Takes me back!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I finally cracked and made an account

It's not worth it, you basically get alerts on the account for everything to the point of uselessness

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That’s what I have been told and that’s why I have been avoiding creating an account

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I found a work around for this even though i don't use quora anymore here it goes :

  • click the question you want to see from the web page . then when the question thread link you want to see appears on your search bar click your search bar and load it manually . Also you have to be in incognito mode for this to work .