A Long Road Ends: RIP Quora
Sep. 2nd, 2021 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
innerstoryToday, after at least three years of waffling I finally left the Quora community after more than a decade. I tried to find a reason to stay, and even took a break to think about it. In the end, I decided to delete my account outright.
I’d long struggled with using the service due to a lack of focus by the team behind it not addressing basic functions of the service. The home feed, search, a2a, and personal blogs or “spaces” had long languished in favor of financial expediency.
First its was sponsored low quality content. Then it was ads. Then they slowly took away the ability to to moderate writing requests. Now, finally the last straw: Quora+. Basically giving users the ability to lock their content behind a paywall. Half of my feed was unreadable because of this. Simply put the content on Quora is not of high enough value to pay to read it.
For years my online social footprint has been shrinking. I’m now down to Dreamwidth and Mastodon. I post here in fits and starts, but I really like the values of the team here. I use Mastodon pretty much daily.
Hopefully as I become less distracted by services with poor values I’ll have the capacity to contribute more here.
I’d long struggled with using the service due to a lack of focus by the team behind it not addressing basic functions of the service. The home feed, search, a2a, and personal blogs or “spaces” had long languished in favor of financial expediency.
First its was sponsored low quality content. Then it was ads. Then they slowly took away the ability to to moderate writing requests. Now, finally the last straw: Quora+. Basically giving users the ability to lock their content behind a paywall. Half of my feed was unreadable because of this. Simply put the content on Quora is not of high enough value to pay to read it.
For years my online social footprint has been shrinking. I’m now down to Dreamwidth and Mastodon. I post here in fits and starts, but I really like the values of the team here. I use Mastodon pretty much daily.
Hopefully as I become less distracted by services with poor values I’ll have the capacity to contribute more here.
