Similar to Quora -- the hype was based on the initial exclusivity/SV celebrity factor. Once things opened up, average quality of content went way down.
But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period
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No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.
Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.
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Mainly articulate opinions on various questions that are open ended. "What regrets do you have?", that kind of thing.
It's actually more useful than that. Even for queries with objective, straightforward answers, if I get a search result with a Wikipedia article and a quora answer I almost always go with quora. The Wikipedia result is an article written by a faceless group of people and there's no way for me to gauge the quality other than included references (which are very hit and miss on a good number of articles). The quora resu…
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mainly articulate opinions on various questions that are open ended. "What regrets do you have?", that kind of thing.
It's actually more useful than that. Even for queries with objective, straightforward answers, if I get a search result with a Wikipedia article and a quora answer I almost always go with quora. The Wikipedia result is an article written by a faceless group of people and there's no way for me to gauge the quality other than included references (which are very hit and miss on a good number of articles). The quora resu…
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.
Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.
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#97Side question: From a technical perspective, why was it iPhone-only for so long? Even Twitter Spaces still don't work on the web AFAIK despite having announced their intent to do so nearly a year ago.
Rich and famous Americans don't use Android phones, so it added to the apparent exclusivity - I'm sure it's not much more than that, their actual VoIP tech was a SaaS and it's easy to assume that they didn't actually need Android customers at that point. This isn't meant as a quip or sarcasm, it is actually what a lot of people thought back in its "golden age", reading through Twitter and other social networks. For a…
I can agree with that and it is exactly why I never want one. Cheap Chinaphone, never paying for or subscribing to apps and not giving a shit about optics. That is my special snowflake fashion statement.
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#99I downloaded the app on my iPad, because someone told me it was the new hotness. As soon as I started it, it was fixed to an iPhone window. This was about a year ago. No apps should ever do that. It means the app is crap quality. I nuked it, and forgot about it.
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#100Does anybody remember the app Yo?