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This (excellent, provoking, well-worth-reading) article was posted a week ago on Quora (https://mokriya.quora.com/Designer-Duds-Losing-Our-Seat-at-the-Table htt

This (excellent, provoking, well-worth-reading) article was posted a week ago on Quora (https://mokriya.quora.com/Designer-Duds-Losing-Our-Seat-at-the-Table https://mokriya.quora.com/Designer-Duds-Losing-Our-Seat-at-t...), interesting that only the Medium version made it to Hacker News.

rspeer 12y ago
If I saw (quora.com) next to a link, I would just skip over it. Quora has managed to brand itself as a Q&A site where you can't read anything unless you verify your identity three different ways (or remember the secret code to type in the URL bar). I see now that that's not what it is in this case, but I never would have guessed that you could follow a link to quora.com and get publicly readable, long-form blog content. I never even would have consciously thought about it. It's like banner ad blindness; you learn not to see links that are likely to annoy you.
- argonaut 12y ago
  Ironically, the author of the blog post has a blog post (on Quora) talking about how Quora is superior to Medium (because Quora is centered entirely around surfacing interesting content to you).
- onedev 12y ago
  You're being a bit dramatic don't you think? All you have to do to use Quora is log in...
  - rspeer 12y ago
    Funny you should ask. I tried signing up for Quora once. I figured "Okay, they really want me to sign up, and they say it takes 'seconds', so maybe this will be better and more convenient overall." It did not take "seconds". I forget what all the sign-up steps were, but there were a lot of them. Eventually I decided this was way too much effort and information for me to give a site I don't even like, so I left. Weeks later, I tried to follow a link to Quora again, and it wouldn't let me see anything because it was redirecting me to a page that wanted me to finish the sign-up process. I had to spend even more time convincing it to forget I had ever linked it to my Google account.
bowlofpetunias 12y ago
Oh what a surprise an article only makes it to Hacker News when it's actually published without restrictions on, you know, the internet... Quora is an annoying walled garden that's just a mildly classier version of expertsexchange.
grey-area 12y ago
This is the price Quora pays for user-hostile tactics like hiding user-generated content and forcing login - their reputation precedes them. Interesting that this author lauds them as an example to emulate.

rspeer 12y ago

If I saw (quora.com) next to a link, I would just skip over it. Quora has managed to brand itself as a Q&A site where you can't read anything unless you verify your identity three different ways (or remember the secret code to type in the URL bar). I see now that that's not what it is in this case, but I never would have guessed that you could follow a link to quora.com and get publicly readable, long-form blog content. I never even would have consciously thought about it. It's like banner ad blindness; you learn not to see links that are likely to annoy you.

argonaut 12y ago
Ironically, the author of the blog post has a blog post (on Quora) talking about how Quora is superior to Medium (because Quora is centered entirely around surfacing interesting content to you).
onedev 12y ago
You're being a bit dramatic don't you think? All you have to do to use Quora is log in...
- rspeer 12y ago
  Funny you should ask. I tried signing up for Quora once. I figured "Okay, they really want me to sign up, and they say it takes 'seconds', so maybe this will be better and more convenient overall." It did not take "seconds". I forget what all the sign-up steps were, but there were a lot of them. Eventually I decided this was way too much effort and information for me to give a site I don't even like, so I left. Weeks later, I tried to follow a link to Quora again, and it wouldn't let me see anything because it was redirecting me to a page that wanted me to finish the sign-up process. I had to spend even more time convincing it to forget I had ever linked it to my Google account.

bowlofpetunias 12y ago

Oh what a surprise an article only makes it to Hacker News when it's actually published without restrictions on, you know, the internet... Quora is an annoying walled garden that's just a mildly classier version of expertsexchange.

grey-area 12y ago

This is the price Quora pays for user-hostile tactics like hiding user-generated content and forcing login - their reputation precedes them. Interesting that this author lauds them as an example to emulate.