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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#82I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…
Who's Adam, and what is his role in all this?
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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#83When viewing a site's content that shows up high on google's search requires me to break out the inspector and hide divisions, or to spoof being a different user agent, something is wrong... very wrong.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#84I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…
Weren't Quora the ones who tried to tell other users which pages you read also?
Yup, it was them: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/09/creepy-quora-erod...
This more than cluelessness, it's the same sort of low-grade sociopathy that underlies Facebook's shifting non-privacy policies.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#85This was posted an hour ago and still no one has released a bookmarklet to circumvent? Come on HN!
I recommend Noscript browser plugin. I've added Quora and a whole slew of news sites to my block list. The trick is to globally trust all sites in your prefs and then access the blacklist through about:config or manually add each one through the context menu.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try clicking around. They still obscure answers that aren't the top answer, though you're right there is a fair amount of content visible.
When I click the "answers" tab on the sidebar of a user profile, I can see the entire user's answer history unobscured. Is this not the case for you? Maybe we're caught on different sides of an A/B test, although I keep getting the same results in new incognito windows.
Ah, I didn't click that. You are correct.
Opening questions from their feed brings up obscured answers.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#87I used to like Quora a lot but always hoped it would grow out of its Silicon Valley cliqueyness... I think a lot of these recent changes ensure that it's going to continue only serving that niche.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#88I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…
Who's Adam, and what is his role in all this?
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#89I also noticed they force you to login on the desktop version in order to read answers. Maybe this works, but the friction was seriously annoying and as a really active social media they probably missed out on a Facebook post or tweet I would have made about what I found.
I feel like it is a bait-and-switch, because as an early user I LOVED LOVED LOVED Quora and contributed a ton. Now I'm just annoyed by them all the time.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#90Interesting. Such tricks is exactly why Stack Overflow originally went against Expert Exchange, promising never to hide user-contributed content, and explicitly licensing it as Creative Commons. Quora is its content. Its content is user contributed. Hiding such content from other users is just plain evil.
The user-contributed content is the central issue. They rely on the kindness of Internet people to create the content, but then they do various tricks to hide that content from Internet visitors. It really is just plain evil.