[xkiwi]

"Quora is a knowledge-sharing community that depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something."

I just cannot stand with Quora keep asking me to continue with Facebook or google. If majority of users in Quora are based on people who obey dictatorship from Quora, then probably it is not the place for true knowledge.

[edanm]

(Rant up ahead, mildly directed at parent, but really directed at the average person espousing parent's view on HN, of which there are a surprising number. so, xkiwi - please don't take it personally, it's not really about you, I'm just unloading frustration).

For your own sake, I suggest you take a serious look at your worldview. You are saying that people on Quora are "obeying a dictatorship" because Quora chooses to "force" them (on their own property, mind you) to use Facebook or Google, which is something almost everyone uses.

Your point of view is so far from the mainstream, and might I add so insulting to the people who use Quora, not to mention the people who built this amazing, free of charge site that so many people love, that I think you won't be able to hold a meaningful conversation with almost anyone else.

And might I add, talking in this way shows a complete lack of empathy with almost anyone else in the world. If your base assumption is that Quora is a dictatorship that people obey, it really seems like you have never taken more than 2 seconds to think about someone else's point of view in your life.

[spooningtamarin]

But they do not force you. You can register with your own email without any links to your google or facebook account.

[cpeterso]

Just add "?share=1" to the Quora URL. Or install a browser extension like "Quora Share" to do it for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quora-share/

[thaumasiotes]

Counterpoint: just add ?share=1 to the URL when you submit it to HN

[gcb0]

quora is extremely annoying.

i always get a link like this one, read something, then any link i click i get to some crippled page instead of the content and some bad ui that doesn't even make it clear what weird ritual they expect to show the content.

[mikez302]

Adblock seems to block that annoying overlay that covers the page. You can also get rid of it by copying and pasting the following line into your browser's web console or debugger:

(function(){var x=document.querySelector("[id$=modal_signup_wrapper]");x.parentNode.removeChild(x)})();

[gcb0]

i never saw that... i only see the page with missing content... maybe they host js from some domain i blacklisted then.

[post_break]

I just blocked the overlay with my adblocker.

[austenallred]

They want you to sign in with Facebook or Google and that = dictatorship? Please.

If you don't want to sign in don't use it. They obviously gain enough value out of having users logged in that it's worth losing those who won't.

The vast majority of people outside of HN don't care.

[gopowerranger]

And now on to the topic!

[spooningtamarin]

You can register with your email.