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Quora is even worse for this. For years they’ve had an extremely hostile user experience on their mobile site — you scroll half way through a long answer, and
by jw1224 6y ago
Quora is even worse for this.
For years they’ve had an extremely hostile user experience on their mobile site — you scroll half way through a long answer, and get interrupted with a modal prompting you to finish reading it in the app.
But the modal cannot be dismissed — there is no way to close it. You can’t scroll the page, it persists on reload... rendering the site utterly unusable.
- braythwayt 6y agoIt’s interesting to compare Quora and Stack Overflow. They both are about questions and answers, and they both set out to use interaction design and aggressive curation to create a high-quality Q&A resource. But despite having similar goals and a willingness to experiment with behavioural patterns, they ended up with incredibly different experiences.
- chiyc 6y agoI used to really enjoy reading responses on Quora, but at some point, it seems to have devolved into pretty low quality spam and self-promotion.
- jw1224 6y agoSame here — in the early days, I’d spend hours each week on it. There felt like a turning point, around 2018, when it just sadly became “too mainstream”, for want of a better phrase.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoYou also can't navigate their site without being logged in. Something Google should crack down on.
- zentiggr 6y agoWhen I realized I couldn't read anything on Quora without logging in, I deleted my account and I haven't missed a thing. There's probably a core group of users there, but I can only imagine it's a stagnant pool now.