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Quora iPhone app released - with new Nearby feature

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Check out http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ... and http://www.quora.com/about/app/ for some more specific information.

Perhaps this is not the right place to discuss this, but I have been surprised by the low general quality of answers (and questions) on Quora. At least in the topics I follow - philosophy, writing, clothes - the answers are often factually wrong, parochial or common opinion (rather than knowledge). There is no real criticism: instead of pointing out the obvious flaws, commenters usually just add that yes, they agree completely. My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day. Despite all the hype, I have yet to find an informative and knowledgeable answer on any topic at all. Is the site the failure it seems to me or are there topics where the site actually has helped generate helpful content?

> My view only shows very few posts - a handful of questions per day.

You should follow more topics and/or people. That would get you a better variety of content in your feed.

Without knowing much about your interests, it's hard to know what to recommend specifically. But if you check out http://www.quora.com/browse and look around, you may find more answers you like; then follow the topics, or the people who wrote those answers.

If you're interested specifically in answers with vigorous comment threads, try following http://quora.com/Politics or maybe specifically http://quora.com/Gary-Teal . Or anything to do with startups.

Finally! Quora did have one of the cleanest, fastest web-apps out there though, but Kudos to them for finally releasing a native one.

I have always had issues with the Quora "more" button at the bottom - it gets stuck in an endless loop. The rest seems stable and responsive, but that issue alone (over multiple computers and browsers) has made me not bother with Quora.

The native version is mostly UIWebViews embedded within a tab bar controller showing the mobile web app.

If I hadn't had it explicitly pointed out to me that the app is a bunch of web views, I would have thought it was a ton of Core Text drawing going on behind the scenes.

This is actually just wrong. Compare them side by side and you'll see that the web view components in the iPhone app have been specially designed and constructed for the app.

See http://www.quora.com/Why-is-most-of-Quora-for-iPhone-a-wrapp...

A more relavant link to discuss: http://www.quora.com/Neeraj-Agrawal/posts

Can't buy it from the Portuguese iTunes store. Why?

English locales only for now. See http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ...

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