[sparcpile]

Before Stackoverflow, they were pretty good. Once they started the anti-pattern of requiring registration to view answers, the quality went down hill pretty quick.

In the last few years, my workplace added them to their blocklist. I didn't realize that one of the reasons was Quora is very spammy with emails.

[vasili111]

Adding the requirement to register in order to see the answers I think was major mistake. I remember multiple times coming to quora from google and after just closing the page because of it.

[brookst]

This. It’s a short term strategy that blew up the long term. I submitted a bunch of answers to Quora way back when, but learned to avoid clicking links to the site because of sign in hassle. Which meant I was never on the site, so I stopped writing new answers.

Classic case of a company not understanding their value prop and accidentally destroying it.

[shauryamanu]

Just like what Meta is doing currently whether with Whatsapp channels and trying to add similar features to all its apps.

[lolinder]

> Before Stackoverflow, they were pretty good.

Stack Overflow was publicly available two years before Quora was.

[scbrg]

Perhaps non existence was Quora's peak. After that, it was founded and everything went downhill from there :-)