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What do you think has happened to Quora?

by onedev 14y ago

kami8845 14y ago
-- Lost a lot of trust in the userbase when they did the ridiculous "Matt has viewed the following questions" stunt. -- Kicked one of the 2 co-founders, Cheever off, rumour has it he didn't want to go as aggressively after growth as D'Angelo & other powers wanted. -- Widely sneered at in SV as being the company to look at if you want to know what "taking it too far with forcing growth" means. Their "sign-on to view this content" is a joke. Especially if you combine with their "Our mission is to grow and spread the world's knowledge" Personally: -- Their site's JS is a fucking mess. Crashes both my Chrome _as well as_ my iPhone's Safari frequently.
- paulrademacher 14y ago
  But you don't know that these were to satisfy investors, against the wishes of the company leadership.
  - robryan 14y ago
    Doesn't matter that much who thinks it is a good idea. It is still a straight sacrifice of user experience in the name of capturing more user details and monetization.
- prophetjohn 14y ago
  | "sign-on to view this content" This is the sole reason I'll never open an account there. Fortunately, if I really want to see some of their answers, I can just delete the overlay div in the developer console. edit: It looks like they've fixed it so you can no longer just delete the overlay. Parts of the text are replaced by images of blurred text now. Oh well.
- rdl 14y ago
  It never crashes my browser, but does stop reloading, or hangs, or whatever, so I have to reload the page. It's only been getting worse over the past 2 years.
lwat 14y ago
Quora does the dodgy 'Experts Exchange style' answer blurring crap when a google search links you to them. I've blocked them from my google results because of this nonsense.
- OriginalSyn 14y ago
  Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Experts Exchange, W3Schools and Quora started showing up in my search results again.
  - lwat 14y ago
    It moved but you can still do it. https://www.google.com/reviews/t https://www.google.com/reviews/t
    - OriginalSyn 14y ago
      Well that link works but the filtering doesn't... If I search for "Javascript" W3Schools is top result despite the fact I blocked it.
      - lwat 14y ago
        You are right, it does seem to be broken :( https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/N7203iFRvuk/discussion https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/N72...

What do you think has happened to Quora?

by onedev 14y ago

What do you think has happened to Quora?

-- Lost a lot of trust in the userbase when they did the ridiculous "Matt has viewed the following questions" stunt. -- Kicked one of the 2 co-founders, Cheever off, rumour has it he didn't want to go as aggressively after growth as D'Angelo & other powers wanted. -- Widely sneered at in SV as being the company to look at if you want to know what "taking it too far with forcing growth" means. Their "sign-on to view this content" is a joke. Especially if you combine with their "Our mission is to grow and spread the world's knowledge" Personally: -- Their site's JS is a fucking mess. Crashes both my Chrome _as well as_ my iPhone's Safari frequently.

paulrademacher 14y ago
But you don't know that these were to satisfy investors, against the wishes of the company leadership.
- robryan 14y ago
  Doesn't matter that much who thinks it is a good idea. It is still a straight sacrifice of user experience in the name of capturing more user details and monetization.
prophetjohn 14y ago
| "sign-on to view this content" This is the sole reason I'll never open an account there. Fortunately, if I really want to see some of their answers, I can just delete the overlay div in the developer console. edit: It looks like they've fixed it so you can no longer just delete the overlay. Parts of the text are replaced by images of blurred text now. Oh well.
rdl 14y ago
It never crashes my browser, but does stop reloading, or hangs, or whatever, so I have to reload the page. It's only been getting worse over the past 2 years.

lwat 14y ago

Quora does the dodgy 'Experts Exchange style' answer blurring crap when a google search links you to them. I've blocked them from my google results because of this nonsense.

OriginalSyn 14y ago
Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Experts Exchange, W3Schools and Quora started showing up in my search results again.
- lwat 14y ago
  It moved but you can still do it. https://www.google.com/reviews/t https://www.google.com/reviews/t
  - OriginalSyn 14y ago
    Well that link works but the filtering doesn't... If I search for "Javascript" W3Schools is top result despite the fact I blocked it.
    - lwat 14y ago
      You are right, it does seem to be broken :( https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/N7203iFRvuk/discussion https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/N72...