One of the first casualties caused by ChatGPT which explains the massive down-round from being valued from $1.8BN to $500M.
Would need more than just Poe to justify than billion dollar valuation.
How Quora died
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#12Don't blame LLMs, blame the registration requirement. This is one of the kinds of product that people will skip if they can't evaluate it frictionless.
This is what always stops me at quora’s door.
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#13If your core business product is content contributed by users... I'm turning to the opinion that you need a C-level ombudsman- / dean of contributors-type role. Whose sole job it is to (1) figure out what contributors are thinking and want & (2) advocate for them inside the company. Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way. Management begins to take contributi…
Quora had one, William Gunn. He was laid off, along with the entire human moderation staff and practically all of the user-facing developers.
Quora had been going downhill for quite some time before that, as they realized they had no idea how to monetize the content and were grasping at straws. But that was the point where they appear to have pivoted entirely towards AI and continued the human generated content side on minimum life support.
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#14Quora seems pure clickbait at this point. Unfortunately, because it didn't start that way, now anything still relevant on that site is burried under the weight of the nonsense.
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#15When I visit Quora, mainly through it being a result for something I've searched for on Google, I can never quite understand what's the question, the answer, and what's an answer to something completely different. So I've never felt compelled to stay or join myself. Also, for a while I just hit a login wall, which of course makes you not click a link there the next time.
There's a toggle on top left that's by default set to "all related", as in answers to the question asked + a bunch of answers to things you're definitely not looking for, but are tangentially related.
If you switch the toggle to "answers", you only get answers to the question.
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#16This article amounts to concern trolling with a barely veiled agenda for censorship. Its "users are fleeing" claim is an attempt at wish fulfillment.
The key to using Quora couldn't be easier: don't search for or read topics that you don't want to see. Human inquiry will always be delightfully messy except in the view of those who have pathological control complexes.
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#17I used to like Quora, but it's gotten unuseable. I ask questions once in a while, and no one answers them. My "Notifications" today include:
Why did the Beatles use a Stratocaster for electric guitars?
What is the best essay writing service?
What are the major challenges of writing an essay?
What is a poem for you?
Should I sell my Squier CV 50s Strat for an Ibanez S521?
Do you count time spent thinking about what you are going to write as time spent writing?
Is it important for a writer to write what he feels?
What is the process of writing a book without having anything written down beforehand?
Do guitar players prefer single coil pickups or humbuckers?
Do guitar players prefer single coil pickups or humbuckers?
Which rock musicians do you think could've been better than they actually were?
New Quora insult: "Quora exists to make NextDoor users look smart"
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#18Before folks jump on the business model aspect, one should keep in mind that many (all?) online communities go through a similar growth curve. Wikipedia included.
But this article goes into the details of what makes this feel different. Quora is aesthetically much worse than it ever was.
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#19No mention of Quora founder at OpenAI? https://archive.is/xsK8S
> His position on the [OpenAI] board has also raised eyebrows because Quora has been in increasingly direct competition with OpenAI’s best-known service: ChatGPT ... Shortly after OpenAI launched ChatGPT a year ago, Quora introduced Poe, a platform that allows people to ask questions from various AI chatbots, including ChatGPT.
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#20When I visit Quora, mainly through it being a result for something I've searched for on Google, I can never quite understand what's the question, the answer, and what's an answer to something completely different. So I've never felt compelled to stay or join myself. Also, for a while I just hit a login wall, which of course makes you not click a link there the next time.
Yeah, this is the main problem I have with Quora. You go to a thread to look for answers to a question, then find the platform has merged in a bunch of answers to related questions alongside the ones I'm actually there to read.
For example, I found this random question just now:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-blockchain-technology-work-11
About half the answers there are actually to that question. The rest are to questions that are about the same thing but with different wording:
* 'How does block chain technology work?' * 'How blockchain technology works?' * etc
or to related but not quite identical ones:
* 'What is blockchain technology and how does it work?' * 'What is blockchain technology, could you explain it in an easy way?' * 'What is a blockchain?'
So you'll see a lot of answers... which may or may not actually be for the question you were interested in. Or which may explain it in a weird way, since the actual question they answered was worded very differently.
At least with StackOverflow you know that the answers are all related to the same question.