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Good response, worth the read. Heck the response alone could justify their own article.

As an aside: I hate quora' site design so much I have blacklisted it using Google Personal Blocklist. Somehow I dislike it more than Experts Exchange (which is also blacklisted), it is just super cluttered with nonsense, rolls into the comments section without warning and rarely offers good content (see Experts Exchange again).

That being said Yahoo! Answers also rarely has good content but at least with Yahoo! Answers you can determine that with a glance. You visit the page and you can see the answer (or lack of answer). So Yahoo! Answers remains in my search results, Quora and Expert Exchange have been vanished indefinitely.

PS - Quora also likes to spawn pop ups whenever you click anywhere on the page for no real reason (just asks for your Quora login details). For someone who randomly highlights blocks of text while reading this is pure hell...

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This one got reposted to Gizmodo, with a saner interface. http://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-targ...

Thanks. We changed to that from http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-fighter-jet-lock-onto-and-ke... since there were so many complaints about the latter.

So the average bastard who reads Hacker News still gets to read the content? Your hypocrisy is just amazing.

I'm having trouble parsing this. What is the problem, exactly?

Well, given that the people here seem to have extreme hatred for Quora, they should not be visiting the site or do it on the terms set by Quora. I find it extremely hypocritical that they would want to read extremely interesting content which is often available there. Given that the original link was there in Quora, I don't see any reason why it should be changed - if people find it bad, they should not click the link or flag it so that it disappears.

Apologies for the abusive word used.

The unusual number of complaints on this thread were actually because of a bug causing a bad experience. This was our fault and it has been fixed.

We don't mind the change of link - we just want knowledge shared on Quora to get to as many people as possible and we don't mind if it happens on other sites. But I wanted to let you guys know that this was a bug and the behavior is back to normal (nothing with share=1 will ever require viewers to sign in / trigger this level of complaints). There can be so much negativity here that it can be hard to tell the difference between general hate (as radmuzom suspected) and a real problem, but in this case it was a real problem.

I remember you used to see experts exchange or the like come up in search results and you could block it right there, in your search results without having to go to a separate page. Since they've hidden it, I honestly thought they'd removed the ability to block websites. Thanks for letting me know I just have to hunt for it.

I wonder why they removed that option from search results?

No the option is completely gone, not just hidden. You have to use an extension (which is what Google Personal Blocklist is).

Pesonal Blocklist Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Same problem here. To dodge w3schools I resorted to writing an /etc/hosts local dns entry, so I would never open it even by mistake.

Browsers should block this by default :)

Although www.w3fools.com has softened its stance.

> Somehow I dislike it more than Experts Exchange

Someone needs to make a Stack Overflow to Quora's Experts Exchange (preferably by just using the Stack Overflow codebase/framework).

Is is called Stack Exchange. They don't cover all the topics, but the new sub-sites are being created gradually when demand is made.

This one would fit into http://aviation.stackexchange.com/.

Which part is the nonsense? The stuff on the sides? What do you mean by "rolls into the comments section without warning"? (Honestly curious.)

I think the content is often pretty good! YMMV I guess.

I really don't like the typography. In one page you'll find serif, sans-serif, all-caps, bolded, italicized, black links, blue buttons, green buttons, barely visible gray links.. it's a mess. Every revision they make to the home page (top stories) feed seems like a step backward in readability.

The content is usually good but it's still annoying that Quora impedes you from sharing it with others that aren't also on Quora.

> That being said Yahoo! Answers also rarely has good content

I would go even further and say it is the spiritual successor to YouTube comments before they were G-plussed.

FWIW the "spawn pop ups whenever you click anywhere on the page" was a bug that was fixed.

Holy shit, without fail the top comment on a Quora story is a rant about their design. Get over it. Don't click if you don't like it.

So true. And upvoted - Quora is one of my finest discoveries in the last two years. It has taught me immensely about various cultures around the world, and while opinion should always be taken with a grain of salt there are enough "factual" answers too. They are also a brilliant engineering company, and have some of the best web-based tools available to those who are asking questions and providing answers. No other site - I repeat, no other site including StackExchange provides as much functionality as Quora. The only downside is that they are sometimes a bit slow. For a forum who talks about free market at the drop of a hat, and tends to defend Amazon in every discussion; my message to get Hacker News is - GET LOST!! We are happy with the real name policy and we are happy to log in to browse the site. If you don't like it, don't use it. Good riddance.

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