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Quora is great, but in my mind, it was the next Wikipedia-like site that is focused on Q&A, rather than a Facebook-like site that is focused on Q&A.

The fact that they have to monetize hurts their user experience because they push features such as requiring you to sign to view answers.

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Do you remember Experts-Exchange ? It was one of the best resources but they did what Quora does now, gained hate of geeks and they lost their competitive advantage.

As long as Quaora continues to hide content, in long term, there is no way but bankruptcy.

>they did what Quora does now, gained hate of geeks and they lost their competitive advantage.

Which opened the field wide for StackOverflow to come in and succeed.

Is there any reason why a similar replacement for Quora can't take off?

The active Quora userbase loves the product and are not at all looking for somebody to build something better - that is usually a prerequisite to an incumbent getting beat.

Quora is a tiny speck in the market compared to the number of Internet users who want informative answers to questions. Quora's user interface is a giant fail, as it has already convinced many of the most knowledgeable people in whole disciplines not to post content there, and not even to look for other people's content there.

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