One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking
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The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

“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.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    145·
    10 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      10 months ago

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

        • remus989English
          2·
          10 months ago

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

          • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 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.

      • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANTEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        I would pull it up if it seemed directly related, but just the UX was so awful that even if it answered my question, it felt bad the whole while. Though most of the time it was the most awful LinkedIn-esque winemaking m wind bagging by people desperate to be considered professionals in their field

    • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Before Quora it was yahoo answers and it was just as shitty as Quora. The only Q&A sites that are not a waste of time are stackoverflow and other stackexchange sites.