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No, I don't need to login. No, I don't need 50 more notifications and an email digest, no, I don't need to install the damnt app.
What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
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Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency. On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person. I'm not…
I hope you see the irony in this.
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>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
Advertising seems to be toxic to free communication. It pretty much killed Usenet.
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> Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die. That's a good point. Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...
I dunno. I’ve noticed my feed now contains more and more ads. And posts out of order. And posts on repeat. It’s clearly no longer the simple service which simply shows me the latest images posted by those I follow. It’s now a site I can tell is trying to game me, and that’s such a turn off. Facebook had that moment where they crossed a line and that was when I stopped posting. Instagram too is getting close. They sho…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/influ...
Quora embodies what I fear most about the idea of ever starting a VC-backed co...that once you accept money it is very hard to return it and if your burn rate is low you could just “exist” for years without actually succeeding or accomplishing much at all.
What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.