Ask HN: What went wrong with Quora?

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Newsfeed content quality seems to have nosedived a year or two ago and never recovered. Are they doing okay as a business? Were they too dependent on Google traffic? What could they be doing differently?

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Quora has a program where they pay people a tiny amount to post questions. So there are a lot of stupid questions that could be easily answered with a google / wikipedia / imdb search.

My favorite question, a triple stupid question: "Does California make good wine?" 1. California is a big place, with many different climate zones. 2. There are at least a hundred different varietals. 3: 'good' is a relative term.

Also tons of spammy ads.

Same thing as everything else, it’s full of “growth hackers” answering questions in order to market themselves or some product or service.

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