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Quora is a site that is somehow successful despite its product development decisions. They seem to constantly make the site and community worse with every updat

Quora is a site that is somehow successful despite its product development decisions. They seem to constantly make the site and community worse with every update. There's still a decent amount of amazing valuable answers from real verified experts but the experience of using it is horrendous and I've completely stopped trying to write anything anymore.

sokoloff 7y ago
I can't decide whether I hope that whoever decided that iOS Safari users on Quora would get a blocking "F you; use our mobile app" experience after scrolling a short distance is included in the layoffs or will be allowed to stay on and continue the destruction of the company.
- gnicholas 7y ago
  Yeah, do you want them to take that stratagem to their next company/product?
- wiseleo 7y ago
  I get that, while logged in, as a Top Writer, with admin rights to some things, on a 10-year old account. Yeah, that’s wrong. There’s no check for isLoggenIn().
codingslave 7y ago
Yeah I think the downfall of quora is partly due to their product managers decision making and the machine learning recommendation engine. Both of which are abysmal even with all that Harvard and Stanford talent they have
- rgoulter 7y ago
  My main interaction with Quota is its digest emails. I thought the recommendation is pretty good in terms of catching some attention. What's wrong with it?
  - logicchains 7y ago
    When you start reading something interesting from the Digest on your phone, and then it stops you with an inescapable popup telling you to use their shitty app instead of your browser.
  - manigandham 7y ago
    The recommendation is highly sensitive to who you follow. Many of the long-time users have a great feed, but starting out with a clean slate presents rather poor results.