If I attempt to expand a question it directs me to download an update. And the moment I agree to download the update which I have already done it takes me back to the AppStore and informs me that I have already downloaded the updates. I have refreshed the app, restarted my phone and tried various tricks to no avail. It seems I can now access Quora only through my laptop. Please fix the app. Quora as a site, and its content, is good. It allows less of the rabid right wing zealots to spout their poisonous opinion, and allows for reasoned well worded answers.
But lately the app is awful. Mods on here are a rule to their own they delete innocuous comments and leave up terrible ones so at least app devs - do your job. Quora is an amazing resource I find - for a really diverse range of topics.
I follow lots of mental health Quorums and am constantly following notifications that come through and reading really interesting questions, answers and comments about them.
Technically it works really well and the app is great. I suppose I could just use a web blocking browser in the web version but I really like the app. Go try it out anyway. Be good to see you there :. The developer, Quora, Inc. The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More. Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled. App Store Preview. I'm really loathe to login to some random site that I know I won't visit often, and I'm not interested in spreading my Facebook or Google or other logins around the web either.
It looks like their content is not growing whereas hits are maybe with AdBlock Plus and such , and someone there thought these kind of hacks would be brilliant ideas to force people to do things that they don't want to do. Same Here. Sam V. Tim Peterson. I actually reported this to Google a month or so ago.
They do this even on desktop. Its searchable, but they blur it out. Its a scam. If enough people report it to google maybe they'll blacklist them. Oscar Godson. SQL Backup Master. Saw your tweet last night and got enraged. How stupid. I'd use that js snippet above to bypass it just out of spite.
The same way I used googles cached pages to bypass expertsexchange answers for years. HAHA, the hack still works even on their new site. Just google any question, if you see it on ExpertsExchange then just view the cached version of the page and scroll to the bottom. The answers are always there, even though I've repeatedly emailed them telling them about this bug.
Quora does the same thing on Android phones when not logged in to their mobile website. You can see the first answer, but then must download the app to see the rest.
If you are logged in on the site you are able to see all of the answers. Of course, to use the app you need to login! Essentially they have created a walled garden. Of course they are free to run the business the way the like; I just don't like it.
Dain Binder. Bad customer service at a store, poor experience using an app or website. Mark Robinson. Here in Brazil all major news companies are doing the same with their websites.
I can't agree more. If content isn't freely available it shouldn't be freely indexable either. I've long since despised the trickery we see on the web these days. I can live with advertisement banners if I have to, but this kind of trickery is unacceptable. Cornelius J. I don't understand why anybody would ever use Quora. It's basically a vastly inferior StackExchange that wants you to login using Facebook or some stupid app to view answers. It's certainly an interesting crossroads between companies trying to make money, and the Internet, which most everyone has come to expect to be free.
As someone stated, it is the exact same experience on Android. Point being: exact. The styling of the banner ad is very iOS-y and on Android makes you feel like the app is iOS only it isn't.
In fact the banner is identical except "App Store" is replaced with "Google Play" Point: They went through the effort of sniffing for what OS the user is using and delivered different banners based on that.
They just didn't go through the effort to make Android user's experience feel like it's aimed at them. I never used Quora. In fact, I've never even heard of them until I read this article. Went to quora. But they do want my facebook, google, or twitter account to sign on.
Quora is failing at the internet hard. Santi M. I'll pay a site if the information it provides is unique and useful. Confession: I used and paid experstsexchange for a while. Then I started getting lousy answers to MY questions and stale answers on research.
Frankly I am overwhelmed with general information at this point. So much "news" isn't really news and so much of the rest of it is simply poorly written editorials.
Not unique - not useful. I'd pay for this site, actually. Couldn't figure out how, so I bought your lost phone app. But you're right, Scott. If you tried to deny me with some tomfoolery, a loud, awful game show buzzer would go off in my head and I'd be gone. Actually, I hear that sound a lot these days. Ever since Quora started heavy-handed moderation of question and answer content and sometimes even by person it became of as little informative value as Yahoo Questions.
I dropped out of the conversation some time ago. No looking back. I'm a heavy Quora user who signed up before they started doing this. I think Quora's content is great, but I think their whole walled garden approach is a giant mistake. As you explain so clearly, it turns off a lot of people. Thanks for taking the time to document your experience. William Pietri. Well written. I have to agree with you that any website funneling me into their application gets an automatic back button or page close.
Open web! If you want me to enjoy your amazingly awesome content and share it, make it responsive and mobile friendly! I don't need a Quora app or many others that I wouldn't find use for on a daily basis. Good DAY Sir! Evan Rose. I hadn't really messed with it before, but it looks like the common way to view source on an iPhone is to use a bookmarklet and that there are several options to choose from.
I'm curious which one you're using and if you'd checked out more than one? The words actually do say, "You need the app to read all the answers". Yet every time I see it I read, "You need to press your back button and find a more usable web site". Richard Carr. You sure have a point. Then again one may have even higher expectations. For example expecting to use the service under better Terms. Or even to have access to the Quora source code and create their own instances before accepting to use the service.
The limit is subjective. Many users probably the vast majority will simply accept to use their app. Timely post Scott. Our local newspaper just went to a paywall. You are allowed to read five articles online before being blocked. The choices there are subscribe to the print version and get online access included or subscribe to a digital only plan. What sillyness. Brian K. February 15, The sea of apps is also creating something of a "Tragedy of the Commons". When apps were rarer, being asked to install one wasn't so much of an annoyance.
But now that the bandwagon is moving along it's "the thing to do". Well, many of us smartphone users are ditching the apps due to pestering updates, etc. Why deliver something through an app that already has an app for that purpose, i.
Apps that deliver web content cannot last if everyone is doing it. And it's unnecessary anyways. Nicholas Ketchum. I remember reading that these fall under foul play as per Google SEO policies. I love the fact that the open web just got turned against those trying to close part of it.
You undermine your argument when you contradict yourself. If you hit a Times link from Google or Twitter, it works. That's a good thing. If you see something else interesting, they let you read that, too, up to ten times.
That's also a good thing. But they don't want you to read unlimited amounts of their "value-add" for free. I have the NY Times app, which allows free access to the top news stories, and depending on the day's events, I read it between a few times a week or several times a day. I don't subscribe, which means I can't use it to read columnists, etc, but I'm OK with that.
I understand what they're trying to do, and I agree with it so I live with it. Most casual users of the Internet seem to have a belief that the millions of people creating content and platforms fulltime on the Internet are doing it purely out of charity and the goodness of their hearts, and have no interest in or need for being compensated in any way for their work aside from a few "thanks" here and there.
If the rest of the world were run this way, we'd be back to throwing spears at antelopes and growing all of our own food on plots of land not far from our homes within a year. I agree that the Quora implementation is very poorly done. I'm not a frequent user, but when I hit the site recently I get the whole "You need an account to view this page" thing and immediately leave. However, I'm not Quora's target demographic; I don't spend much time on the site, and don't answer questions.
In other words, people who use up bandwidth and little else. My guess is, Quora will be happy to see those people go Oh well Dilip: I had the same thought. Great minds think alike. Did your wife teach you that? Some yuppy. February 16, Last time I looked a Quora in a desktop browser I had Fiddler open. That's why it was the LAST time. Try it, see what I mean. Scott, I think they're tracking your bowel movements. CAD bloke. So I found a way around the NYT paywall So go sign up for a free Instapaper.
This happened to me on the MIT technology review site the other day, so I had to download the article twice in order to be able to read it. I have an amazing mobile browser with a large screen and have zero problems reading normal websites on it.
Just fucking let me!!! Josh Schlesinger. February 17, But at least I can find answers there. February 18,
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