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Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by vechagup »

baron816 wrote: post #37

I really hope we see some specialized remote worker residential communities in the future. Actually, I’m sure there’ll be money in building them. Imagine a small town with no cars or roads. The community has lots of events to socialize you with your neighbors. Lots of traditions and festivals. Some communities may look like Brooklyn—row houses, except just grass and trees lining the blocks. Maybe another community wo…

And perhaps when enough of these like-minded remote workers are living near each other, some of them will find that they enjoy working in the same physical location at the same time. Then some of the space in the community can be turned into hubs for in-person collaboration, or offices!

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by Ozzie_osman »

(Ex-Quora here) This is great to see. I left Quora over a year and a half ago, and at the time, the company believed pretty strongly in an in-person culture (in particular, having one office)—even though a bunch of employees and managers were pushing for more flexible work/location policies. I know the company had started experimenting with a little remote work pre-Covid, but it really took a forcing function to demonstrate to everyone that remote can work.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by drannex »

pbreit wrote: post #34
facethrowaway wrote: post #22

Reminder to those who aren’t aware: Quora is a rich man’s hobby business. You aren’t going to get practical knowledge from their decisions.

It was kind of interesting at first when the answers were good and there were some "celeb" participants. But seems pretty stale now with lots of lead gen answers. They claim huge traffic numbers which could be possible given the pretty good Google placements. I don't really get it.

Can we go ahead and coin this the as 'The Yahoo Answers Effect' because it seems they are following in the exact same fashion. High quality question and answers, that slowly (and rapidly) devolves into SEO spam and useless commentary.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by jfengel »

solidasparagus wrote: post #24
unreal37 wrote: post #12

Did you know that Quora PAYS for most of the questions people ask on Quora? Like, there are people making a full time living asking questions on Quora. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/alc5hy/i_am_a_quora_pa...

Is that bad?

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Questions that they pay for are generally of poor quality. When you pay for something, people rush in to produce as much quantity as they can. Even if they are also attracting good ones, they can be hard to find in the onslaught.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by flocial »

_hardwaregeek wrote: post #44

Is it just me or does Quora straight up not work on Firefox? Whenever I click the Continue Reading button, it fails to load more and gives me a generic "Something Went Wrong" error. Do people just not test on Firefox anymore?

I had this and solved it by clearing the cache and cookies for Quora (and maybe facebook) several times. If it works in private browser mode it's definitely corrupt data.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by preommr »

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't.

I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

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