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It's a summary of a Quora thread. Direct link:

http://www.quora.com/Prisons-and-Prison-Life/What-is-it-like...

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As someone that doesn't have a Quora account, it's nice to have the content without a Facebook/Google login wall.

You can append "?share" to the Quora URL to read it without having to log in.

Interesting, thanks.

I wonder if Quora does this to scam on SEO

No question about it. There's no difference between Quora and Experts-Exchange when it comes to SEO deception.

Expert Sex Change - there, fixed that for you.

Maybe, but there are perfectly legitimate reasons for such functionality. It is essentially the same as the NYT paywall. It looks bad when someone clicks a link in a tweet only to be told that they aren't allowed to access the content until they take additional steps (either buying a subscription or making an account).

So they provide links to bypass the restrictions when they are shared over social media.

Can this be used for SEO abuse? Probably, though I couldn't tell you how.

But it's a summary of more than just the 1st answer :) so it's worth it.

Though they could have edited it a bit better, or tried to reach the people involved, rather than just repackage the thread in one big article.

And Quora doesn't disable pinchzoom like Slate does

Why would you disable pinchzoom?

Because you are a "mobile UX expert", which is the latin for "asshole".

Slate is run by Microsoft; need I say more?

I can't reply to elwell's comment directly, but Slate has not been a part of Microsoft since 2004.

Usually if you hit the "link" button above their comment, it will take you to a comment box.

it makes the page less sluggish. it's impossible to disable double tap zoom without disabling pinch zoom, and while double tap is enabled, browsers have to insert a tap delay. this is because every single tsp could be the beginning of a double tap, so the browser waits until 300ms after a single tap to respond to it. this delay isn't perceptible as a delay, but it does make the entire page feel less responsive. disabling zooming disables the delay and makes the page feel quick again.

also disabling zooming makes it feel more like a native app, which some people like.

It's easy enough to avoid the 300ms delay without breaking zoom. There are dozens of tiny libraries that fix this problem by intercepting touchdown events and immediately firing a click if there isn't a touchmove within a very short interval. So, double tap doesn't work, but pinch does and you get "tap" events with very little delay.

Why would a text article webpage care about tap delay?

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