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Hi! I'm the person who made the teardown. I tend to hate those too, but for some weird reason found myself enjoying this particular topic-picking experience. It
by samuelhulick 13y ago
Hi! I'm the person who made the teardown. I tend to hate those too, but for some weird reason found myself enjoying this particular topic-picking experience. It might have been because it felt a lot less arbitrary than many others'.
- natejenkins 13y agoIt actually got me to stop using Quora. I signed up a few years back and enjoyed the weekly digest, which was often quite good at finding questions I might want to read. One day I'm asked to select 5 topics when all I want to do is read this post and there is no "skip" button. Something that was fun has now become work. I would even prefer a "pay $5 and skip this step" button.
- samuelhulick 13y agoInteresting! You'd rather pay than even just click 5 topics arbitrarily?
- natejenkins 13y agoI just don't like being forced to do things. Facebook wanted me to add some more info, which I hate, but at least they let me click 'next' a bunch of times and then it was over with. Quora has done a good job figuring out what I like based on links I click from other sources, why do I have to tell them more? I wouldn't be annoyed by the topic page if it came up one time, I could click "skip" and it goes away forever. I am not sure I would actually pay $5 to skip that page, I live perfectly fine without Quora, but I'd at least respect the "be annoyed or pay" attitude. Having said all that, maybe this doesn't annoy many people and I'm simply a grumpy old-ish man.