Ask HN: Why is Quora popular all of a sudden?

Post by jayajay » Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 5:20 AM UTC

meowface wrote: post #21

SwellJoe wrote: post #17

I dunno about its changing popularity, but like Expert Sexchange before it, I actively avoid Quora. It was the first site I added to my Google Personal Blocklist, and the reason I installed the plugin. Their unsubscribe form is (or was last I saw it in 2015) a nastier piece of work than I could imagine, even if told: Come up with the most annoying unsubscribe form you can. Make it really hard to unsubscribe from ever…

On mobile, they make you install their app to look at anything at all. Any company that needs dozens of "dark patterns" and tricks to stay afloat probably shouldn't exist. LinkedIn is the same.

LinkedIn is bloody awful. I get email notifications and then i click them and they ask me to sign in.

Yeah, no thanks. I don't think looking up my password just to sign in is worth using the app on mobile.

Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 2:08 PM UTC

sideshowb wrote: post #43

SwellJoe wrote: post #17

I dunno about its changing popularity, but like Expert Sexchange before it, I actively avoid Quora. It was the first site I added to my Google Personal Blocklist, and the reason I installed the plugin. Their unsubscribe form is (or was last I saw it in 2015) a nastier piece of work than I could imagine, even if told: Come up with the most annoying unsubscribe form you can. Make it really hard to unsubscribe from ever…

As a user of both SO and Quora I am annoyed by SO's strict policy on subjective questions. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to ask useful subjective questions, yet SO will close them as "not constructive". As far as I'm concerned this is a crude heuristic, it maintains good content quality at SO at the expense of prohibiting certain kinds of discussion. It's totally understandable why they make that tradeoff, a…

Honestly this is the main problem. As a developer is common for me to ask about good books about a new topic I'm going to study (new programming language), but on SO such things are banned. You cannot ask an opinion on something you are working on. And since a lot of stuff are subjective, the more experienced you get, the less SO becomes useful. Hence resorting to Quora

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