How Quora Died

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One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking
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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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Yahoo answers used to be great

Only for being laughably awful. Quora was in this place where the answers were just good enough that you probably wouldn't be able to dispute any obvious flaws without being a subject matter expert already. Yahoo Answers was only a meme factory.