Mmm Quora was a promising platform, now is just Yahoo Answers 2.0 with ML
Quora goes permanently remote-first
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Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first
#82There's an insightful series of comments from Sid, CEO of Gitlab about why this is not likely to work over the long term: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720 It might be different for Quora given that their CEO and SLT will be remote. But I still believe that whenever you have an office you are creating a community of employees who will have a different relationship to those who are working remotely…
Sid explicitly says he expects we (Quora) avoided the pitfalls of hybrid companies in this comment: https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Remote-First-at-Quora/comment/...
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#83Reminder that quora was part of a huge data breach, yet they still, to this day, employ dark patterns that force you to make an account.
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#84I 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.
Twitter is awful for conveying longer text. Here's an unroll of it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264341436138270720.html
The key text is: @threadreaderapp unroll
If you reply to a Tweet thread with that, it'll unroll it and create a link like that.
Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
My intuitive understanding of Quora, formed about five years ago, is that it’s a WikiHow with VC mojo.
It's most accurately described as a yahoo answers with generally higher quality answers and SEO.
“Higher quality than Yahoo answers” is an extremely low bar.
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#86Did 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...
Quora is not user friendly. Asking me to login every time to read some answers to marginally interesting questions is not a value proposition to me.
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#87On somewhat related note, I've always wondered how come links from the Quora digest email just have the URL "quara.com" with no direct link to the question/answer?
I get that it links to a SPA. But this seems intentional.
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#88I expect there to be a momentary burst in attempts to go remote-first, or at least hybrid. Senior executives will want to level the playing field between expensive areas and cheaper ones, and use that to drive down salaries overall.
But then, there are plenty of managers who really see a lot of value in spontaneous face-to-face interactions, or even planned ones, because so much communication happens just in body language alone. So I expect to see a rebound as the next generation of ambitious managers decide there is a competitive edge in an all-local team.
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#89How many employees are left at Quora?
Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first
#90I expect there to be a momentary burst in attempts to go remote-first, or at least hybrid. Senior executives will want to level the playing field between expensive areas and cheaper ones, and use that to drive down salaries overall. But then, there are plenty of managers who really see a lot of value in spontaneous face-to-face interactions, or even planned ones, because so much communication happens just in body lan…
Im still waiting for the rebound back to a cubicle.
Fuck open plan.
I really wish people would get it through their damned thick skulls that their heads are not the same as my head. And my head is not the same as her head. And her head is not the same as their head.
We all need our own accomidations. Some people like open plan, some people hate it. Some people thrive in an office environment, some people thrive at home.
These things arent mutually exlcusive. Someone isnt wrong. You can have both things be true.
Yes, in the real world you cant cater to everything everyone demands, but that also doesnt follow that you should just give up and cater only to the lowest common denominator - what some schlep in middle management thinks they know about productivity and psychology.