Quora Reviews

by Thomas Wayne Junior

I like this app ok but your website does not allow for free expression of thought or debate bc your website is too concerned with someone being too offended. When a person goes into the real world and have been sheltered from offensive things, how will he or she deal with job rejection, criticism from employers, people on the street telling an offensive joke, or someone getting mad at him or her and yelling with no holding back. They will need more help psychologically bc it will be a complete mental rush and may lead to depression and other things. If a woman asks “I am a single mother and cannot secure a good relationship outside of the bedroom, what’s going on?” And I answer honestly, your moderators will flag it bc it’s too offensive and this response has no name calling and just spills facts on the table. So how can someone get a real opinion if it is sugar coated to hell. My supervisors or bosses are blunt and while it may hurt feelings when being criticized to some, I find that blunt nature of my superiors to be great bc it helps learn boundaries and keeps people doing great things and creating an amazing product. Stop worrying about being offended and people will have better responses and while arguments may end up with name calling, who cares, sticks and stones.

by Rcmustain

I stopped using the site because this app puts up unclosable pop-ups when you DONT have Quora . I downloaded it and there is nothing it can do wouldn’t be doable if they hadn’t played around with the mobile version of the site to make it less functional, AND it was slower, so I deleted it. Then I would spark up the site and get halfway through a question or reading a response and the unclosable pop up. I would exit, and it would be frustrating to find where I was. Trying to engineer my behavior in such an underhanded fashion has led me to stop using the site on my phone and my PC. I make sure to open Reddit and a few other similar sites a few times a day to get the stats up on their competitors.

In making the switch, I found that this app is much more likely to butt-in in questions and comments to engineer the conversations in such a way as to suppress free thought and any sort of disagreement that goes against the biased views of the this app team. I really like how with reddit I don’t get notifications from this app’s algorithm asking me to read and answer all the troll questions (there are a LOT of trolls on this site).

If you are into that sort of thing, this app is for you! Not me - I would rather actually get to see the well thought-out and politely worded disagreements with my views remain unmoderated.

by Mviefrk

Do not download Quora I’ve been on it for quite some time and it gets more and more frustrating every time as not only are there a lot of really dumb questions but very rarely will I see or get an actual answer to a question as it feels like I’m more so being judged for my questions rather than getting a legitimate answer from it and I see this with other people ask questions too, and not only that but I’ve also seen questions where some people will end up getting offended for no reason and taking the questions personally.

The other problem is that fact that you can’t delete questions after they’ve been answered even if there’s only one answer and it gets deleted you’re still prevented from deleting the question.

And I think all of this could be fixed if Quora were executed better and had mods who check Quora frequently to ban the people asking questions that aren’t important and the people not answering questions respectfully, also get rid of the comment section it’s not necessary and it’s only giving the trolls more power.

by AwesomeDodge

I use to really enjoy Quora. It used to be filled with intellectual conversation and allowed users to answer or ask questions anonymously if users didn’t feel comfortable putting their names on something, because certain groups out there will try to get you fired or depersoned for your beliefs. However, this app took features like this away, creating a need for people to create alternative accounts. Since, it has become a cesspool of trolls, lies, and honestly just trashy content in general. It’s no longer a site for discussion on philosophy or a place to ask questions for growing their knowledge. It’s now a place for people ‘asking’/‘answering’ questions to confirm their bias, blocking those who disagree with them, and censorship honestly. I’ve tried to have conversations with people who agree with me and others who don’t. Sometimes they block me, sometimes they dont. It’s not like I’m being rude or anything either, I try to be cordial and considerate most of the time. They say something like ‘this app isn’t for debate or discussion, it’s to answer questions.’ No it’s not, or else there wouldn’t be a comments section for questions. People of this app don’t want their opinions to be tried by others anymore, they just want everyone to agree with them in an echo chamber.

by Foreign91

First when you report someone for doing something like harassment or sexual stuff involving illegal stuff , there is a chance if they feel it is not a big deal your own account will get temporary suspended. Not kidding. The amount of sexual content involving catfishes or non catfishes is unreal and takes away from the professional side though it is worth mentioning you have the option to turn off adult content but regardless such accounts that post possible illegal pictures aren’t being taken down by repeating offenders. Also if someone insults you and you report them they will likely not take action but if you do the same it is likely they suspend your account as well. Again this used to be a legit and credible site now it is going down the alexa ranks fast due to the over saturated ads and repeated not so thought out questions anytime you follow a space. Ex. If you like a answer about cheese , you will see questions like “is it bad to stick cheese in my eye balls?”

Another thing is the community is really toxic though you have your good apples there are more bad ones even among topics that involves science and medicine. Please do yourself a favor and find a better place to find enthusiastic writers/bloggers.

by William H. Nartsac

used Apple ID to login and Quora FORCED me to provide my email address and name anyway. It said "optional" but after many tries, 10 minutes of waiting for Quora to spin after trying to skip entering an email address (defeating the point of using Apple ID to login) I entered a random email address and I was treated with several minutes dealing with captcha crap... really?! If they have so many issues controlling fraud and/or this app isn't sophisticated enough to deal with modern threats that they require more captcha tricks than I've ever seen I'm definitely not trusting any content... and most definitely not posting or providing my info. I see Quora has high ratings... it might deserve them once you jump through all the hoops and provide personal data, but after such an inconvenient and annoying process FORCING login, FORCING giving personal data and giving info I don't want to give just to read something, I am deleting. There are far too many legit platforms I can use that don't do this... I'm surprised so many use this app... sheep I imagine. Nevermind...I just skimmed/read a ton of so reviews... they are reviewing posts on this app not Quora or experience with Quora . In fact, I stopped trying to reviews that weren't about content on this app - only found a couple about this app itself and they were 1-star.

by The Cutiee

So I saw this app online and loved the questions and the nice well-thought answers people would give back. So I downloaded Quora to ask questions myself. I got on, asked a question and scrolled through Quora for a little bit and I was done. Next day I see my account says I have zero questions. I thought that was weird so I asked the same question again thinking Quora just glitched. I see again today that it still hasn’t posted my question. So I go to post another one today and it says “you have been blocked from asking questions.” WHATTTT??? For what reason? I have not been using Quora inappropriately or bullying anyone of the sort, so I’m highly confused. The only reason I can think of why I was blocked is because the question I asked offended one of the “this app employees” if that makes sense. My question was “what should I say when my overweight friend asks if she’s fat?” It wasn’t a rude question, it was honest. My friend is well overweight and I’m concerned for her health and I’m trying to say something without offending her. So I’m really annoyed right now because I was looking forward to getting answers to my question. Since I cannot ask questions there is no point in using Quora .

by Theresa5155

As much as I enjoy this app I’ve come to despise Quora . It ruins my ability to access this app content via the website or email by blocking website content and misdirecting requests to ‘read more’ from an email.
Before I had Quora I would get directed to the website from a daily email I would get. Right around the time I’m in the middle of a good answer, a pop up appears on my screen recommending that I download Quora . The problem is that there’s no way to close the pop up. You either close the page before finishing the answer or download Quora . Useless.
Finally I had enough and downloaded Quora . Now my emails open Quora when I want to ‘read more’ of an answer. Unfortunately Quora doesn’t take me directly to the answer I was interested in. It takes me to a feed with different questions. So I give up on the email question that brought me to Quora in the first place and start browsing the feed and reading an answer to a new question. Right around the time I’m in the middle of that answer, the screen switches to the answer from the question in the email. Useless. After finishing the email answer, it doesn’t take me back to the question that it interrupted me from, instead it takes me back to my feed and that question is nowhere in sight. Useless.

by Jamieoliverboo

I love this app—-the website that is. It’s educational, entertaining, and fun all at the same time. There are so many people who have a deep understanding of things and so knowledgeable in the way they provide their answers—-with some who are not so knowledgeable, though a lot fun to exchange replies with nonetheless. But wow a sharp decline in both quality and user friendly interface could not even begin to describe the disappointment that is this this app. It almost feels like two different entities, where one is just a cheap knockoff. The this app website experience, although sometimes clunky, is enjoyable in both content and site navigation. Quora is like the Great Value or Wish of what the website is like. I mean the continued and almost neverending error you get while trying to even just open Quora is just HORRIBLE. Then it lags while you navigate through Quora screens, where many times buffering is so long it will just crash. So you try to open it again and guess what? Ahhh of course the neverending error of just trying to open it. I mean what a hack of an app and an embarrassment to what is otherwise a great thing.

by Whisky9809

After having used the this app app for about two years, I have come across a few annoying issues that really ruin the experience of Quora . Firstly, every time I open Quora , I have to wait for Quora the respond to my touches. It can take anywhere from around 10 seconds to almost 20 seconds. I don’t know what it’s doing in the background, but it’s annoying. Next, when I want to search for a question, it seems to freak out and freeze the whole app. It opens the keyboard, and I can type on it, but there is a massive delay from when I press a key to it being displayed on the screen; it only happens when I open Quora after not using it for a while. Next, very often when I am scrolling down through my feed and I tap on the “read more” on an answer, it doesn’t respond to my touch as if the read more button doesn’t exist. I can tap and tap as many times I want, but it will not open the answer. Tapping on the answer itself does nothing either. This happens randomly and I don’t know why or what triggers it. The last issue is the most annoying of them all. When I’m reading the comments, and I accidentally swipe left or right just a little bit, the whole app with hang and not respond at all. I have to manually close Quora and reopen it again so it can work. These issues sometimes hold me back from even opening Quora . Overtime, it seems that more problems are being made than fixed with every new feature update.

by Seriousfarang

Lots of social media apps annoy me because I am reading something interesting, close Quora for 5 minutes, open it again and the screen refreshes and often I cannot find the item again. Besides that issue, often when I’m trying to find where I left off in the comments of an answer, and I’m swiping my finger up in order to scroll to the end, I reach the bottom of the page (not the last comment, because I have not even expanded all the many comment “nests”—just the bottom of the comments visible so far) and inadvertently swipe the entire thread up and it disappears, never to be found again. Why are there no “expand all comments” buttons on many social media apps? Why does the same gesture (swiping up) both take me to the spot where I left off but also accidentally make the post I’m reading disappear? Why is it so hard to find things I started but did not finish reading (unless I had the chance to interact with it in some way, meaning it would show in my activity)? Am I the only person who finds these behaviors so frustrating? Every time there’s an update, I hope they have finally fixed these issues, but so far no luck.

by Digital_dreamer

The developers really need to work on optimizing Quora for power efficiency. It consumes way too much power to keep it running, even in the background (iPhone 6) You can actually watch the battery percentage drop while typing. And, needless to say, my phone gets very hot while using it. I have to quit Quora , if I want to preserve battery power for the rest of the day. This is bad programming and not acceptable for an app that just views text and facilitates the editing of text.

The other issue is the inability to highlight specific text while editing your post. Quora will either scroll all the way up or all the way down. Extremely frustrating and ridiculous. This issue has been going on long enough and makes one wonder if this app developers actually use Quora in the real world.
This wouldn’t be so bad if one could enter and format text in another app, perhaps adding style tags, then copy and paste the text within the this app app and expect it to retain the formatting.

by Ben Renner

This’s a great site to use. It’s amazing what you can find here. I really like being able to find and create content in other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese. Quora is pretty fast compared to using it on a computer. My only gripes are it seems to glitch at times which can be annoying. Your drafts aren’t always saved, there seems to be a limit as to how much you can share (though it’s not clear), and the way it’s set up to how you can paste photos is very mind boggling.

The original method was fine, why this one? Not only do you have to either save it in your phone or highlight the photo itself, but if you’re trying to copy and paste links, it takes more space than it should. It also doesn’t look good if you’re doing a photo collage. It’s also impossible to seek help from someone who works there.

In spite of these problems, I like it and still am overwhelmed at how much you have to read. It’s amazing. Check it out.

by Sav0202

I love that I actually get real answers on Quora. On yahoo answers people call you racial slurs for asking a question about Islam or I could ask “what’s the best movie to watch?” And people would tell me to F off or give a sarcastic answer and I would literally have have 28 “answers” on the question and not one of them would actually answer the question and it’s really messed up. Where as here everyone is so much kinder and not many trolls. I love Quora it feels like a safe place and I could ask the strangest of questions and not one person would judge me for it. The only problem I have with this is few of my questions are still unanswered and it’s been 8 months. But most of the time they are answered fairly quickly. The other thing is I wish there wasn’t a limit on the number of letters used in the question and I wish is I wish I could comment anonymously. You might be able to but I’ve had Quora for a couple of years and still can’t figure out how.❤️I definitely recommend Quora tho to anyone. I absolutely love Quora.

by Mariposamistletoe

I enjoy Quara very much- so many , many different viewpoints and helpful hints especially about why men and women cheat, about why men keep a girlfriend from high school that they love on the side , yet because it’s so late in their life like being in their 60s the don’t seem to love the wife but want high school lover instead , about emotional and verbal abuse why women stay , about different races, music, science, human behavior , what men wish women would do and vice verse why our pets are important , backstabbing g friends, how our parents raised us and it’s affect on us years later when we are in our 60s, what love and being “ in “ love means - I’m truly addicted to this site such a diversity of topics and I enjoy trying to read them all ! It’s simply a very fascinating site that I read every day if only for a few minutes- especially subjects about why men do certain things and us women as well ! Thank you for having it for us keep it going please‼️‼️‼️‼️

by Gargantua7

Not everyone, but the core of this site is the people who are passionate about their own pursuits. Look into the Shakespeare threads and you’ll find professors, academicians, actors, lifelong afecianados and more than a few high school kids or college undergrads trying to get the others to do their homework for them, and it’s lovely to see the occasional pedagogue call them on their shirking ways and steer them back to the proper ways.

IT’S Not just the bard, of course...the other day I wandered into a thread of moterheads deeply informed on the nuances of V-8 combustion engines and how to make them faster, louder and more exquisite. No idea what they were saying, but there’s a pleasure in reading passionate savants go at it, no matter what the topic.

Do you like antique watches but no one else you know gives a feather or a fig? Start a group here, or find one ready made. Nobody wants to hear your opinions on Betty vs Veronica? Poke around here, you’ll find dozens. G’wan, it’s omnispectic! Jump right in!

by Jbwoy79

The previous review was talking about political questions. Unless there was a no politics no religion ban, you will always have conjecture, rhetoric and biased points of view. It is an open forum, and aside from ad hom and foul language, people are free to speak their mind. But there is nothing wrong with an open debate that focuses on politics having spin. People are still given upvotes and if you feel an answer is wrong just don’t follow them, and if people keep upvoting bs block them too. The site is well managed, and while you can find nonsense in there..if you take the time to choose reliable people to interact with, your gonna get more reliable answers. My only qualm would be that people upvote people because of their celebrity and sometimes they make the content secondary to the topic and question. And of course being an open forum there is content that is not accurate. But these people are rarely upvotes and their content is ussually not found on your feed.

by S.L.B.M.

Quora is great and works great for me. However, when I click an email from this app to read more, it opens in safari and my feed proceeds there. Lately, not long after I start reading, I get a permanent message window, blocking the rest of the answer, telling me to download Quora and preventing me from seeing the rest of the comments I am trying to read. There is no way to clear out of it. When I click to go to Quora , it goes to Quora Store first. By the time I get to Quora , it is not on that question anymore and I don’t get to finish reading what I had started. I need to figure out how to have the email open in Quora or there needs to be a way to click out of it or if I click to go to Quora , it should continue where I was so I can finish the question I was reading. I couldn’t find a way in Quora to leave feedback about this so I left a review here instead.

by Huguhyuhy

I just got Quora recently and everything was going good for the first day I had it. I wrote a question I got an answer almost immediately but the next day I wanted to type another question but I was BLOCKED I still don’t know why and for those wondering my first question was about engineering, nothing inappropriate just engineering, anyway I went to find customer service but the closest thing I found was a search bar for pre-written questions I also looked online and even this app and they all said that it was probably one of my posts offended someone but the only thing I said on there was a question about how to get started on engineering. If your reading this this app please help my in someway so I can write questions again then I’ll probably rate 5 stars because besides my problem Quora is awesome!
Edit: I’m not sure if you read my review or if it was a glitch but it’s back to normal so I’m voting 5 stars

by Anon, Too

Wow, just discovered it a few weeks ago and already it proves too much of a distraction! It’s given me many occasions to reflect on an issue that I know is important but maybe don’t know very much about -I have a particular blind spot re: Latin America - or it’s something I have studied but perhaps haven’t thought about in a while and thus am forced to collect my thoughts before answering. I’ve made some surprising discoveries doing that! It sometime shows me how or how much my views might have changed - strengthened in cases, weakened in others. I’ve had some very rewarding exchanges with people here. Happy to report something I wrote was apparently funny enough to make a stranger on the other side of the world pee her pants! I’ve also come across, unfortunately some disturbing questions or comments - most of which just show how deeply polarized a society can be. And then there have been a few intentionally provocative (in an ugly way) statements that I did not restrain pen or tongue long enough prevent me from replying with an uncivil post — a few of which have been deleted by the admins, appropriately in my view.

by StephenJSpace

I despise monopolised requirements to provide personally identifiable information for the sake of than selling that info to affiliates of the company thus pushing the consumer to buy something they are not interested in and making the company money. The sad part is the company denies this justified malicious business practice and smothers it with legalese and candied phrases connivingly scripting the companies representatives to ignorantly state things like ‘We do not sale identity information’ but refuse to admit that they do sale public information about you; like you name, address, phone number and your family and friends that you have an affiliation with. This ‘public information’ is stolen from your profiles of your social networks like - in this case - google or Facebook, that they force you to register with to ‘access all features and provide the best possible experience’. I say monopolised because a significant number of articles are exclusively linked to this platform meaning that it’s not very productive to remove this platform if you want to stay in touch. You can’t hide these facts from me I can translate the legalese, from you terms and conditions, into laymen’s terms.

by Mtn Dave

This is such a ridiculous app, that I think Apple should remove it from Quora Store. I downloaded Quora because it flashed up like an old “pop-up” ad. Quora appeared to contain information that I needed it. As soon as I tried to read it, there was a true “pop-up” that appeared over the information. This “pop-up” suggested that I go to Quora Store and download their App. I didn’t care to do so, and I tried to click back to the content. This was not possible! The only option that you have is to go download Quora , so I did so (my terrible error). Apparently there was something in their system indicating that I had already downloaded Quora . I finally got back to the informational part of Quora , and I couldn’t find the information that I had at first needed. Well, hardheaded person that I am, I decided to ask a question to see if perhaps I could get some good answers. When I began to type my question, I was stunned to see no spacebar on the keyboard.

Maybe I missed something, but I found Quora to be less than worthless. If I could give it a minus star I would do so.

What really tops the cake, if you click on the “Developer Website” button Quora Store page, darned if you you don’t get the same “Pop-up” that will not allow you to access the Developer Website without downloading Quora . This makes me feel even more positive in my suggestion that you not download Quora , and that Apple remove it from Quora Store.

by Jaybond63

It is just ridiculous that there is no way to copy and paste what you are writing as an answer on this app from Quora on the iPhone to Notes or anywhere else for that matter. It used to be that you could copy and paste within this app. This helped me a lot especially when I forgot a point someone made and I wanted to go back and read it during commenting. Before I would just copy where I am in the comment the clipboard; exit the comment; read the point I missed; and then go back into a reply and paste where I left off.

It seems that in an effort to contain everything written on this app within this app, you guys have resorted to enclosing us within your system. This is utterly unfair !!! I recently discovered that you treat the content your users write as your own personal content. We are not your writers though you treat us like employees. Allow me to copy and paste my answer anywhere that I please ! For Christ’s sake, my messages and answers are intellectual property. I should have a way on the iPhone to copy and paste them somewhere else.

Please either fix this issue and introduce a way to migrate our content to local folders and files. I repeat, answers are our property and not yours. Even if you utilize it as yours, and we may have signed away our rights when we signed up. But it is wrong to try blocking your users from existing outside your ecosystem.

by Bob_Noyb

1.) Often questions are asked which are location dependent, but the question is very vague/basic in its asking. It would be nice to know, at least, the country, if not the city/state of question location. An often asked question example is “What is the best first car to purchase?” Well, that depends on if the questioner is in Los Angeles, Köln, Shanghai, Nairobi, or Bangalore. But finding the questioner’s location is not trivial (at least to me), and would be very helpful for answering.

2.) Questions are often merged (by some sort of mediator), since many-many-MANY-MAAANY questions are very similar or nearly identical. But, sometimes the merged questions are not truly similar at all (so I assume the mediator is (not to be insulting) ignorant of the subject and is merging the question based on wording rather than true knowledge of the subject), and there does not seem to a mechanism to inform the mediator they should un-merge the two questions.

Sometimes the questions are merged that ARE somewhat similar, but (maybe) should not be as they are dissimilar enough to rightfully be separated IMHO. I WOULD like to inform the mediator of my opinion in either case.

by Shemthom21

I love everything about this app and how much information, answers and perspectives you get from the site. First to continue reading you guys force us to sign in which is okay and fair enough I guess, although still annoying when you want to just read one single post. Even worse now, if I am on mobile and I scroll on a this app page it now forces me to download Quora to continue viewing the post(after already forcing me to sign in). Please Quora is not as intuitive as using a web browser on mobile so stop forcing us to use it until it is ready to rival it. Regardless of why you guys decide to do this; This is the single reason I don’t spend any time on this app where I know I’d spend hours like on reddit. Please again just allow us to read and if your app is good enough users will come to it without you having to force us. Thank you for reading.

by Nobody P7

Until I was reading a long comment on their website and got a large ad over the screen that I was unable to move or click off of telling me to get Quora . So, this means that you would now have to download their app in order to see if you even like it first and finish reading what you were viewing if you are even able to find it again after downloading Quora . I’ve had it before but have always became bored with it after a while of not finding anything interesting to read for a while after having Quora . It just started taking up space. Again, you can always remove Quora if you do not like it. However if you choose to download Quora in order to continue to read the comment that you were reading before you had to install Quora , it does not take you back to where you were at. Therefore you have to try and find the comment again if your able to. So many people post on these types of websites that it’s not always easy to go back to where you were at. No thanks. I will stick with Reddit. Much better and a lot more interesting too.

by Dace C.

I often wonder why I spent so much time reading this app?

I'm an ex broadcast news reporter, which translate in my case to be a news junkie.
But this app is opinions. That being good, bad or indifferent, it is 100% personal opinions. Not based on research, not based on interviews, but instead based entirely on personal opinion. That opinion is sometimes based on solid past experiences and training, but opinion nevertheless.

I believe I am drawn to this app because traditional journalism based on who, what, when, where and why is 85% gone. Sure, there are still examples of crew journalism, and investigative journalism at some major newspapers, and other journalism organizations. But for the most part today's journalism carries little more weight for me then this app.
But at least this app makes no bones about the fact that they are opinion, even identifing those people making the opinion. Whereas journalism still tries to present itself as fair minded and fact not opinion.
I am a leaning left moderate politically and in most of my opinions. I don't pay much more attention to CNN these days, as I do and have to Fox news for the last few years.

I enjoy this app because it is fun to read, and helps me to widen my view on the world issues because of the vastly different opinions on such a long variety of topics.

this app is not a substitute or replacement for old fashion journalism, but this app never said it was.