Once Quora started blurring answers like Experts Exchange, I had no use for it. You're holding user-contributed content hostage? Go away.
Complaining about usability on Quora is like complaining about not having privacy on Facebook.
Complaining about usability on Quora is like complaining about not having privacy on Facebook.
They go back to the registration screen and still want an email and password just for their special snowflake site.
I am forced to believe that the only reason for the misleading and, frankly, fucking dishonest path through my social media connections is to have more names to potentially spam in the future. Fortunately they won't get such from Dick Wickerson, Completely Fake Account.
It's manifestly dishonest.
As a long-time Quora user, it disappoints me that the content I donate is held ransom in an attempt at "growth hacking".
I don't know if that is their intent, but it's the result.
(Quora does have a setting to hide your name from search engines for this reason though)
You can disallow search engine indexing from your settings under Settings -> Account -> Allow Indexing (disallow) if you're worried about it.
Opening questions from their feed brings up obscured answers.
So please don't try to justify their abhorrent anti-open-web behaviour with would-be privacy assertions.
You got me to go login to Quora after over a year to see what you were so concerned about. Perfectly reasonable, well thought-out comments on respectable topics. I think you're trolling, sir.
and there's a Chrome extension http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
On a side note, what does Quora achieve by forcing people to view the data using a native app rather than through the browser? It seems a little ... pointless, or perhaps I'm being unduly myopic with regards to their strategy.
When Quora gated my pro-bono work for their short-sighted purposes, I turned elsewhere.