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How Quora Died (slate.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.