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For me I hated Quora because of how locked down it is. Want to view another question on the site? Must register an account first! No fucking thanks. It was always nagging about creating an account.
Because of this I actively ignored Quora results anytime I googled something.
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
Experts Exchange, basically if stackoverflow was quora. Can only see questions even when logged in and you'd have to pay a pretty penny to get access to any answer. Or you could collect enough points to access the answer you need by writing answers yourself (ridiculously many points, think weeks of answering).
Oh damn, experts exchange. Takes me back!
I finally cracked and made an account
It's not worth it, you basically get alerts on the account for everything to the point of uselessness
That’s what I have been told and that’s why I have been avoiding creating an account