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If it's so hard for casual and new user, how good is it? As well as the confusing search/post box (which leads to a lot of questions getting posted by mistake)
by jdp23 16y ago
If it's so hard for casual and new user, how good is it? As well as the confusing search/post box (which leads to a lot of questions getting posted by mistake), there's also the lack of categories when you create a question (which leads to a lot of orphaned questions) and the way you have to do a lot of editing of tweets to get them to be useful. Plus there's no way to move an answer to be a comment, so when people make a mistake it's a pain to recover. etc. Maybe it's all intentional to keep people out but with everybody highlighting how their business challenge is to attract users who aren't techies, that doesn't seem like the right approach to me.
- gojomo 16y agoWhat if Quora doesn't yet want/need casual users who are unfamiliar with their central social (voting/tagging/following/constrained-searching) mechanisms? Also, familiar/orderly interactions are hard to iterate rapidly: expectations are already set. Throwing new ideas out there, and seeing if people figure them out (or use them in unexpected ways) generates more knowledge and upside potential. The mainstream will be trained-up on these interactions, by lots of other sites which settle on the same winning arrangements, in a couple years. Then, Quora will seem familiar.
- jdp23 16y agoWell, their CEO has been telling people since November (if not longer) that their challenge is to broaden their user base, so that's the metric they're being judged by. And it's possible that all the other sites will also settle on the same "winning" arrangement of not wanting/needing casual users but they shouldn't count on it.