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How Quora Died (slate.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] Sterile_Technique 145 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I've been pouring my life into the Internet since before Quora existed.

There was never a time I recall Quora not being shit. All it ever did was dilute search results.

[–] teamevil 45 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Any time Quora results come up my search gets an instant -Quora. That site is a wet fart... terrible

[–] ArghZombies 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's like the text version of Pinterest.

[–] PigsInClover 5 points 9 months ago

I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Perfect description.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except Pinterest is good if you know what you're looking for. Quora has always been bad no matter what you do.

[–] ArghZombies 1 points 9 months ago

It's more that it pops up in Image Searches all the time and it's almost always a useless example of what you're searching for.

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