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Bypass Quora signup wall by appending "?share=1" to URL
Is this common knowledge? Pretty useful for the folks that don't know this, like me.
Try it yourself:
http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-part-about-working-at-Google
vs.
http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-part-about-working-at-Google?share=1
- eknkc 13y agoMy solution: Bypass Quora signup wall by avoiding Quora entirely.
- chj 13y agoExactly.
- yuvadam 13y agoYet another expertsexchange.com just with some added hype.
- brandonhsiao 13y agoTake care to add the hyphen between experts and exchange, or it becomes a different set of words! ;) (I never realized that till someone pointed it out. I always wondered why they had the ugly hyphen.)
- lucasarruda 13y agoFunny thing is: the didn't always have that!
- yuhong 13y agoExperts Exchange I think is paid.
- judofyr 13y agoThey've even mentioned it on their blog: http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better > Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL. Example: http://www.quora.com/Hostage-Situations/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-a-hostage-negotiator?share=1 http://www.quora.com/Hostage-Situations/What-does-it-feel-li...
- himal 13y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300856
- Shank 13y agoWhat I don't understand is why Quora was/is loved by people like the Facebook team after how much they go through to make using their site difficult for end users. The fact that they require you to log in via a social account just to see answers is very similar to the crap experts exchange is by requiring a paid account. There was a time when I thought it was a better Q&A site, but they continuously make it worse and worse with workarounds like this for the simple act of viewing a page entirely.
- pwg 13y agoYou answered your own question: > What I don't understand is why Quora was/is loved by people like the Facebook team ... The fact that they require you to log in __via a social account__ Quora "furthers" facebook by requiring a facebook account, so naturally the facebook team will "love" it. It furthers their (facebook's) business interests.
- nraynaud 13y agoI think they pay some internet celebrities to be there, so somehow it's the only way to get interesting answers to some recent historical things. My real gripe, is why would google index with a quite high ranking something that's not public?
- parktheredcar 13y agoThey've started to allow signups via email, the link is just really really small.
- rxzv 13y agoI'm just amazed they still rank relatively high in google's search results for many of their long tail Q&A type pages. Google is usually pretty quick to penalize sites which use such shady tactics, and I've seen them slap sites for significantly less. To say it's annoying is an understatement. I wish google would penalize all sites which throw up entry barriers, no matter how quick they are to bypass or mitigate.
- creativeone 13y agoThe quality of Quora's ecosystem should not be judged by it's signup wall.
- abhididdigi 13y agoThe above comment looks flagged, But I seriously don't know why.
- strict9 13y agoYes it should. An ecosystem is just that, the whole thing. Some golden nuggets wrapped in excrement is still a ball of excrement.
- ivank 13y agohttps://userscripts.org/scripts/show/159399 https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/159399 does this automatically
- strict9 13y agoQuora is one of the most heinous sites on the internet because I know there is useful information but will hit a trap as soon as I click. How do they get away with gaming Google search results like this? Why is Google complicit in this shady practice? I don't want walled gardens appearing in search results.