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How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. (slate.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Uh people actually liked Quora? I always blocked that website for SEO spam

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The SEO spam is terrible. It reminds me of the days of things like Experts Exchange that just hand your query back to you and pretend like it's what you want. "Here's the exact question you're looking for, just pay us and you can totally see the answer, we promise!"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i think it's been gliding on the entropy of its original value for a long time at this point (it was founded in 2009)—certainly i can't remember a time where it was useful, but then i only first encountered it in like 2016.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I used it 2012-2014. It was fairly decent at that time.