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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
by rspeer 13y 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 13y agoIronically, 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 13y agoYou're being a bit dramatic don't you think? All you have to do to use Quora is log in...
- rspeer 13y agoFunny 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.