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How Quora Died

“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

gsf ,

Kinda sad neither the article nor comments here mention https://ask.metafilter.com/

milkjug ,

Poster: <Asks some random tech question>
100 Quora replies: Hi, I'm <generic name>, creator and founder of <some failing startup/product>, here's <10 totally meaningless> reasons why you should subscribe to my product that does nothing for your question.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I was very active on Quora a decade ago. In fact, they wanted to make me a partner and pay me for my contributions. I was unable to do it due to a Conflict of Interest policy at work. I can see it was a wise decision in reflection.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Was it ever alive? When I found it the site was already trash asking for an account just to see content, yahoo answers was the shit.

kevincox ,
@kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

It definitely was. I remember finding some amazingly insightful answers from people with proper experience. But that must have been nearly a decade ago now. Some of the most memorable ones were reflections from prisoners as IIRC some prisons had some sort of program where the prisoners could write answers and someone would post them on Quora. Interesting insights from murders, con artists and whoever else.

But it has been so long since that was the case. I've had it blocked from my search results for years now. Utter trash.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical…

Oh, so like Reddit or yahoo answers, too?

anansi ,

The UI being one of the worst does not help.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

i still use it rarely

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Sometimes you'll find a good answer but often you have wade through a mile of shit to get it.

weew ,

I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the "Pregananant???" video. Or was that Yahoo?

aeharding ,
@aeharding@lemmy.world avatar

Yahoo answers

Edit: pregánte

SkaveRat ,

What is a Luigi board?

pineapplelover ,

Quora still has answers to some old math problems so it's not all that useless.

BluesF ,

I worry that it will abruptly die one day and we'll lose that. Perhaps someone should be archiving good quora information lol.

QuaternionsRock ,

This article links to a Tweet of a screen recording of a TikTok of a screenshot of a Reddit post as proof that Quora is “hateful”. Yeesh.

KneeTitts ,
@KneeTitts@lemmy.world avatar

Have you been there? It doesnt take long to come across the exact same thing they are highlighting.

QuaternionsRock ,

I’m not debating the premises or conclusions of the article lol

Mistakes like this are merely clues as to how much time and effort the author actually puts into their journalism

Feathercrown ,
GilgameshCatBeard ,

Since when did it die? Seems like it’s still up and runny to me.

metalsonic00 ,

Yahoo answers used to be great

nonfuinoncuro ,

how is babby formed

Tangent5280 ,

gerganant?

frezik ,

Only for being laughably awful. Quora was in this place where the answers were just good enough that you probably wouldn't be able to dispute any obvious flaws without being a subject matter expert already. Yahoo Answers was only a meme factory.

egitalian ,

Good riddance honestly, never have I gotten a good answer from Quora, seems like they're all trolls. So for the past decade+ I overlook ANY Quora links related to my search

psud ,

If you had a question that attracted an expert in a relevant field, you'd get a good answer. If your question didn't attract them you'd get a random internet stranger

callouscomic ,

It was always a garbage site, and it hid behind a requirement to login just to view more than like 1 question, amd it was full of creepy discussions.

Tangent5280 ,

People who fucked their mothers, how did it happen? How was the experience? (In great detail) ((Asking for a friend)) (((Only serious answers)))

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Heh, I requested my Quora account to be deleted just 16 days ago. It was finally deleted.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/6a27acbc-68c9-47d8-b346-410c2ab518b6.png

I left because it got filled with far right-wings, conservatives and pedophiles. Also many answers are now paywalled.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

why not troll the heck outta them

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