Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature • Hacker News Board

d-lectable wrote: post #3

Finally! Quora did have one of the cleanest, fastest web-apps out there though, but Kudos to them for finally releasing a native one.

I have always had issues with the Quora "more" button at the bottom - it gets stuck in an endless loop. The rest seems stable and responsive, but that issue alone (over multiple computers and browsers) has made me not bother with Quora.

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by marcocampos » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:10 PM UTC

Can't buy it from the Portuguese iTunes store. Why?

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by flyt » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:17 PM UTC

marcocampos wrote: post #5

Can't buy it from the Portuguese iTunes store. Why?

English locales only for now. See http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ...

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by annekate » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 6:01 PM UTC

Check out http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ... and http://www.quora.com/about/app/ for some more specific information.

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by flyosity » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 6:58 PM UTC

d-lectable wrote: post #3

Finally! Quora did have one of the cleanest, fastest web-apps out there though, but Kudos to them for finally releasing a native one.

The native version is mostly UIWebViews embedded within a tab bar controller showing the mobile web app.

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by Zev » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 8:04 PM UTC

flyosity wrote: post #8

d-lectable wrote: post #3

Finally! Quora did have one of the cleanest, fastest web-apps out there though, but Kudos to them for finally releasing a native one.

The native version is mostly UIWebViews embedded within a tab bar controller showing the mobile web app.

If I hadn't had it explicitly pointed out to me that the app is a bunch of web views, I would have thought it was a ton of Core Text drawing going on behind the scenes.

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Post by loevborg » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

Perhaps this is not the right place to discuss this, but I have been surprised by the low general quality of answers (and questions) on Quora. At least in the topics I follow - philosophy, writing, clothes - the answers are often factually wrong, parochial or common opinion (rather than knowledge). There is no real criticism: instead of pointing out the obvious flaws, commenters usually just add that yes, they agree completely. My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day. Despite all the hype, I have yet to find an informative and knowledgeable answer on any topic at all. Is the site the failure it seems to me or are there topics where the site actually has helped generate helpful content?