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Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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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…

> My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day.

You should follow more topics and/or people. That would get you a better variety of content in your feed.

Without knowing much about your interests, it's hard to know what to recommend specifically. But if you check out http://www.quora.com/browse and look around, you may find more answers you like; then follow the topics, or the people who wrote those answers.

If you're interested specifically in answers with vigorous comment threads, try following http://quora.com/Politics or maybe specifically http://quora.com/Gary-Teal . Or anything to do with startups.

Re: Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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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.

This is actually just wrong. Compare them side by side and you'll see that the web view components in the iPhone app have been specially designed and constructed for the app.

See http://www.quora.com/Why-is-most-of-Quora-for-iPhone-a-wrapp...

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