> venture capital hub Andreessen Horowitz blessed Quora with a much-needed $75 million investment
Most shocking of all is that anyone would dump more and $1 or two on Quora at this point.
How Quora died
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can 100% guarantees you that Quora didn’t die because of people who didn’t want to run JavaScript or be able to access it over Tor.
Surely my absence played no pivotal role in their downfall. I didn't even know Quora had "died". How sad. RIP Quora. But a tjpnz said: "They're also driving away contributors with more altruistic motivations" Now, I can agree with that, because I see a very strong alignment between the set of people who strongly uphold their own values and have self-respect, and those who stand up for the rights of others and have so…
One other way of saying “drives away people who give a fuck” could be saying those people are self-aggrandizing, self important, always yelling at the top of their lungs about their zealotry telling everyone at first opportunity about how they turn off JavaScript and don’t contribute the much to the discussion
I liken people like this to the Amish. They balk at modernity as being incompatible with their beliefs. So they withdraw from the world and live life as they see fit.
What they don’t do is go around all the time yelling at people telling them how their lifestyle is wrong or constantly telling other people how they don’t use certain technologies.
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#134When 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.
Yep. As a UI/UX specialist, it’s nothing short of a nightmare. I can’t decide if it’s purposeful (they’re trying to kill the site), negligent (they can’t hire or retain talent, or who they have is making bad decisions), or just full of corporate/organizational bloat (basically all decisions made by non-engineers such as stakeholders or investors designed to maximize profit and ad space).I am leaning towards bloat.
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#135One 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.
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#136Quora merging “all related” answers onto the same page is one of the most annoying things about it. I switch it to “Answers” 100% of the time.
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#137Quora 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.
I get random emails from them about "popular" questions like "why has Javascript replaced C++?" Seems like ragebait.
One thing I noticed back when I browsed Quora a lot is that most the answers were in direct opposition to the question being asked. It’s like clockwork.
Q: why is running so good for you
A: it actually isn’t good for you.
Q: why do so many people run when it’s so bad for you
A: it actually is really good for you.
Every single question seemed to be this way. It probably reveals a lot about human nature, but it really turned me off to know I was just reading knee jerk reactions to questions rather than anything accurate.
All this to say, yes, ragebait is the lifeblood of Quora.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I occasionally visit quora off of search results because I kinda got used to parsing out what I wanted, but never knew about this toggle. I literally cannot understand how anyone thought intermixing related questions and answers together is in any way useful or beneficial to their users, especially when the default is set to ON.
Can people not really understand this? Some of those related questions are dupes, other times they are paths to rabbit holes. ycombinator does the same thing. When you guys see posts that come up that have been here before, you post links to previous discussions. I saw this recently specifically with the links to articles on Martin Couney (I had a hard time finding that because the article is so poorly worded).
Even Reddit has linkability to detect the URL and show you an 'other discussions' lens (for Old Reddit).
Granted, this is a slight taxonomy difference of 'other discussions' of the same exact topic, vs other discussions related to your topic. But I think it's a useful and helpful feature.
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#139I was a 'Top Writer' for a couple of years (pre-monetization). I loved it as a motivation to research topics I was interested in and practice writing. Eventually I lost interest, but I still get occasional search results from Quora with information that is otherwise difficult or impossible to find online.
Perhaps in an alternative timeline we might be regularly typing "[some query] quora" into search engines, but Reddit seems to have filled that much-needed gap more successfully.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely my absence played no pivotal role in their downfall. I didn't even know Quora had "died". How sad. RIP Quora. But a tjpnz said: "They're also driving away contributors with more altruistic motivations" Now, I can agree with that, because I see a very strong alignment between the set of people who strongly uphold their own values and have self-respect, and those who stand up for the rights of others and have so…
One other way of saying “drives away people who give a fuck” could be saying those people are self-aggrandizing, self important, always yelling at the top of their lungs about their zealotry telling everyone at first opportunity about how they turn off JavaScript and don’t contribute the much to the discussion I liken people like this to the Amish. They balk at modernity as being incompatible with their beliefs. So t…
That really flipped your wig didn't it?
I'm intellectually curious, what you're so deeply invested in that was just threatened?