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Quora was doomed from the start. When StackOverflow started the founders and the early community put a lot of thought and energy into not becoming one of the ni
by weinzierl 2y ago
Quora was doomed from the start. When StackOverflow started the founders and the early community put a lot of thought and energy into not becoming one of the niche expert exchanges that already existed at that time. Now, Stackoverflow failed, but not by repeating the mistakes that already had been made. That's not something that could be said about Quora.
- bananaflag 2y agoWhy do you say SO failed? I thought it was quite successful.
- wokwokwok 2y agoIt was quite successful. (past tense)
- bigfudge 2y agoI fear you might be true. I do worry though that a big reason LLMs are good and answering tech questions is that they’ve read SO
- weinzierl 2y agoMaybe I am too harsh, and measured by its usefulness[1] it is not really a failure. I was involved in the early SO community and I think it is failure compared to what it could have been. [1] However small that may be, even I would have a hard time to argue that it is useless or irrelevant.