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What is the state of Quora these days? Especially after the pandemic hit, how many employees do they still have and how many did the furlough/fire? I'm genuine
by troughway 6y ago
What is the state of Quora these days? Especially after the pandemic hit, how many employees do they still have and how many did the furlough/fire?
I'm genuinely asking, because how the fuck does that site make any money?
- MattGaiser 6y agoThe pandemic doesn't seem to have changed much at Quora yet. There are a lot of glitches (for weeks the answer button in a request to answer in notifications returned a 500 error), lots of trolls, lots of spammy questions, and the occasional decent piece of writing. The usual. I still don't think they have a test suite simply because they keep changing every little thing. Quora makes money on advertising. A lot of the answers are actually paid adverts which are them promoted into your feed. Read closely, as often in those top 5 lists is the company that paid for the list to be written. So many of the top 5 to do travel answers were sponsored and promoted.
- troughway 6y agoAh, thank you! I had no idea that's what they did, as most of the Q&A I come across are from first-hand sources, usually regarding some event/incident/thing that occurred.