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Why Not to Use Quora

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Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by michalu »

peter_retief wrote: post #159

For me Quora has improved, I get really interesting answers emailed to me on topics I find interesting, Roman history is one

I agree, while I don't visit or use the site anymore, I enjoy the newsletter. Also fan of history so in that aspect it improved. Not in some other areas though.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by yogesh_sp »

askafriend wrote: post #6

All philosophical views aside, there are some really core issues that got me to stop using Quora and unfortunately the case to stop using it is made by the site itself: * The content quality has deteriorated significantly since the site's inception. The content is far cheaper than before and far less interesting in very obvious ways. * Moderation systems have not done a good job of growing the site as a community. Th…

I too agree on the above issues especially their feed is very poor.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by tw1010 »

Because every question is some variation of "What should I do to become rich or financially independent before 30?". The whole site stresses me out, and is probably counter productive if that's the goal I even wanted to achieve.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by paganel »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #100
baroffoos wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit was ruined with the redesign. Its buggy and slow. I get stuck on a loading screen on mobile for about 20 seconds before the page loads and half the time just shows an error. The desktop version also keeps logging me out randomly and forgetting I opted out of the redesign.

I only use old.reddit.com, I agree I hate the redesign on mobile.

I'm in the same boat here, hope they keep it up for a little longer. The new re-design is atrocious, almost makes the website unusable for me.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by anjc »

tw1010 wrote: post #163

Because every question is some variation of "What should I do to become rich or financially independent before 30?". The whole site stresses me out, and is probably counter productive if that's the goal I even wanted to achieve.

It shows questions based on what you've looked up previously. You must have looked this up. I only see questions about research methodologies, for example.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by tjpnz »

It's interesting that StackOverflow is mentioned. They make no secret of the fact that they set out to kill Experts Exchange - they recognised early on that locking up content was going to hurt their longterm prospects. They also recognized that traditional online advertising wasn't going to work for their kind of content and pursued other monetization strategies to supplement it. Which is why I'm surprised that the founders of Quora continue to beat down the same tired path that has killed so many startups before them. Do they seriously believe that what worked for their previous company is going to work for them at Quora. For a platform that's all about discussing big ideas they seem surprisingly bereft of them on the business side.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by alpaca128 »

robjan wrote: post #85
corporateguy6 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m actually surprised at how bad their ML model is. Funny to see someone else mention how overfit their model is. There’s literally no content discovery, it’s the same extremely specific topic. But you know what? I’ve also noticed this phenomenon on YouTube, maybe there’s something to it from an advertising revenue perspective.

Probably, for the majority of users, it's best to show content which aligns with their opinions and interests to increase engagement. It's similar to the Google "Filter Bubble".

Filter bubble is one thing. It's another thing to filter content so aggressively that over 50% of the site's content stays the same from one day to the next while still showing content you already upvoted.

That's the reason I stopped using it a few weeks ago - it got so bad I had to scroll down multiple pages of collapsed answers in order to find a single question/answer that I hadn't seen yet. Which is exactly the opposite of what should happen.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by alpaca128 »

dawhizkid wrote: post #103
askafriend wrote: post #6

All philosophical views aside, there are some really core issues that got me to stop using Quora and unfortunately the case to stop using it is made by the site itself: * The content quality has deteriorated significantly since the site's inception. The content is far cheaper than before and far less interesting in very obvious ways. * Moderation systems have not done a good job of growing the site as a community. Th…

I've also noticed clickbait links to spammy external websites in the main feed.

Yes, they introduced that "feature" this year. Like the new "spaces" which seem to have replaced the interests/topics users can select but actually don't work as a replacement because they seem more like Facebook groups where you can post random stuff and questions related to a topic.

This combined with the horrible feed made me quit recently.

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