[weinzierl]

Quora was doomed from the start. When StackOverflow started the founders and the early community put a lot of thought and energy into not becoming one of the niche expert exchanges that already existed at that time. Now, Stackoverflow failed, but not by repeating the mistakes that already had been made. That's not something that could be said about Quora.

[bananaflag]

Why do you say SO failed? I thought it was quite successful.

[weinzierl]

Maybe I am too harsh, and measured by its usefulness[1] it is not really a failure. I was involved in the early SO community and I think it is failure compared to what it could have been.

[1] However small that may be, even I would have a hard time to argue that it is useless or irrelevant.

[wokwokwok]

It was quite successful.

(past tense)

[bigfudge]

I fear you might be true. I do worry though that a big reason LLMs are good and answering tech questions is that they’ve read SO