https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/quora-tragedy-answer-websites/677062/ Excerpt: Even easier to forget is the fact that Quora, now more than a dozen years old, was once lauded as the future of the internet. Serious people proclaimed that it would be the biggest thing since Facebook and Twitter, that it would eclipse Wikipedia as an online reference source, that it was the modern-day Library of Alexandria. Today, perusing the site feels more like walking through a landfill.
The key people were pretty fucking full of themselves, thinking that they’re doing something super great and they’re oh so special (Marc Bodnick was one such twat). The earlier top users of Quora, almost all from the Bay Area, reflected this pompous arse, oh so superior attitude. Quora wasn’t giving anything different than Stack Exchange, but with the added wokeness before woke was even a term, and users looking to massage their egos and market themselves. It was never going to make it large and people could see that way back in 2014.
Sometimes I accidentally click a quora link on google without realizing it, throw up in my mouth as I try to navigate the worlds worst UX, then close the browser, unplug my computer, and throw it into a fire so I don’t have to experience the unbridled horror of Quora for a second longer
It felt like a site for Q and A for the tech crowd/celebs so if you are a nobody and/or don’t have prestigious degree/work it’s discouraging to engage and do nothing more than read the posts of said people.
I used to be very active on Quora. But then it went to hell, and all the best writers left for medium and other platforms. Quora management turned it into a literal dumpster fire. This is what happens when tech bros bullshit investors to get money to grow too fast. At some point, they will start demanding either profits or an inflated share price so they can cash out. And then the tech bros have to desperately scramble to find a way to come up with the big bucks. Also, it didn't help that these particular tech bros were self-important, megalomaniacal jerks who hired people who expressed... problematic opinions on the platform. They thought that being hot shot engineers qualified them to run a tech company. They fired all their community mods, which allowed spam, scammers, pseudoscience, fake news, and porn to take over. When right wing nutjobs were ejected from all the other platforms in the wake of the January 6th insurrection, Quora welcomed them with open arms. It is also used by foreign governments to spread propaganda. They tried an idiotic monetization strategy to try and get people to pay to use the platform, introduced ads that are barely distinguishable from actual content, and when community engagement fell off a cliff, they introduced a bot that automatically generated completely nonsensical questions that further tanked the quality. Good riddance.
Any social media site doesn’t last long these days…..
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They failed to do any kind of marketing. I hardly see any content from Quora on LinkedIn, even though I follow them. Their interface also didn't evolve over time, it seems like there are too many options on a quora page.
Their search got worse through time. Their search in 2012 was much superior to the garbage they have now.