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Quora did it. I don't go there anymore.
was Quora ever good? I joined the internet in like 2019 and it's always been garbage to me, did I miss its golden age?
Anecdotally, I remember using it for answers to things about probably business, government, and certain how-to's. I also remember when the pop-over banner started covering up half the answers and that's around the time I stopped.
Here's a post discussing quora from Dec 2018.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644489
thank you for the explainer, this is very interesting. seems reddit is following along this path lol
Once upon a time, Quora was okay, before they started paying people to generate a bunch of yahoo answers questions / AI slop questions, and then fucked with the UI and made their site into a virtually unusable mess.
i'm getting reddit vibes, that makes sense. classic enshittification
Don't lie. When 70% of your search results are Quora, you are going to click, you are going to encounter the login banner, you are going to rage, and you are going to click away.
This why it pays to use a search engine that lets you blocklist sites
So like Google 15 years ago when it was still kind of not shit?
Any recommendations?
Or use the ublocklist extension, this puts a button besides all search results to perma ban that domain and allows URL lists like this for automatic garbage removal.
At the risk of sounding like a shill, I like Kagi.
Even when the login banner doesn't appear, lately all the answers are "Hm, it appears that you are trying to do [question title]. To do [question title], [basic bitch advice]. Hope this helps!" Style AI slop.
When it isn't the built-in AI helper doing it, it's the users blatantly copying from different chatbots
Nope, those "answers" didn't help even once, so now they're filtered out of search results, and DNS banned. Quora does not appear on my devices.
I've had some help from Quora, but overall I feel it wastes my time a lot more than not. And I've never had an instance where only Quora had the answer.