Quora is mentioned in the White House blog. Quora introduces Boards, a feature that allows users create any number of boards and post any kind of content to them. Users can write new posts, repost questions, answers, topics, or anything else that already exists on Quora, and they can also post a link to any page from the web. The Quora Follow Button is introduced, with the purpose to help users discover great Quora users from outside of www. Quora announces it has a blog on the Huffington Post , which is aimed at highlighting some of Quora's best answers and posts.
Quora for iPhone v1. Codesprint Quora launches as the first-ever company sprint, designed for programmers to test their prowess, with the intention to hire engineers, product engineers and data analysts. Quora announces partnership with online magazine Slate , with the purpose to share each week Quora's favorite answers with the Slate audience.
Motivated by its very active community around the The Hunger Games topic, Quora partners with information service Moviefone , with the purpose to post some of Quora's most notable Hunger Game answers. Quora introduces a feature that allows users more easily share their Quora activity with their Facebook friends by adding Quora to their Facebook Timelines.
With the purpose to help users get the best content from Quora with finding out the latest activity they're interested in, Quora launches its Most Recent feed feature, which shows new content and recent activity by followed people. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales posts his first answers to questions on Quora. Quora hosts Quorachella, a hackathon dedicated to work on projects that the company thinks will have a big impact but aren't on the official product plan.
Quora introcudes Views, a feature that lets users see which other users are reading which posts. The feature displays how many views a particular question, answer, or post has received, and users can click on the number to see even more detailed information, including registered users who viewed the post, as well as how they found it, whether through a particular topic or another user.
Quora changes the way it displays information on users' activity after a flood of complaints about the site's recently-introduced Views feature. When a user views a post, this action would no longer appear in other users' news feeds but views would still be displayed on post pages themselves. Quora launches Embedded Quotes feature, basically a widget that facilitates web site owners to include Quora content in their blog posts, articles and web pages.
Quora content is introduced on the Bing social sidebar of users in the United States , "helping them find relevant Quora content in an easy way without scrolling through pages of search results". Quora introduces topic suggestions which would show up on questions where there might be other relevant topics to add.
Co-founder Charlie Cheever moves away from day-to-day operations at Quora and is announced as an advisor to the company. Quora introduces Top Writers program as a way to recognize individuals having made especially valuable content contributions to the site and encourage them to continue.
Quora introduces a blogging platform allowing users to post non-answer content. Quora introduces a policy eliminating image-only answers.
Quora launches a full-text search of questions and answers on its website. Quora launches Muting, a new feature aimed at helping users manage and filter their feed. Quora announces that usage metrics tripled relative to the same time in the prior year. Quora releases a film describing what it's like to work at the company.
Quora launches full-text mobile search on both iPhone Quora for iPhone 2. Both apps now offer the same full-text, keyword-based search capability that users can use on the computer.
Quora releases version 2. Quora announces a new content partnership with the BBC. Quora releases version 3. Quora introduces a feature called Stats to allow all users to see summary and detailed statistics of how many people had viewed, upvoted, and shared their questions and answers. Quora announces its Verified Profiles feature for public figures, with aims at giving readers confidence in the authenticity of public figures who write on the site.
Quora announces its intention to allow organizational accounts on the site, starting with an official company account for Quora itself.
TIME partners with Quora in order to bring its growing audience the "best content from the site that has quickly established itself as a go-to place for answers on the web. Quora becomes one of the Summer Y Combinator companies. Quora for Android version 2. The app is faster and presents some important new features, like facilitating question asking, instant feed, and a "full-featured rich-text editor with a complete set of editing tools for Android users on 4.
Quora introduces an all-new mobile website, with aims at offering a website reading experience that is as good as the app.
Everything is made easier, including adding a question, writing an answer, and browsing feed just a tap away. Quora announces product parity across all platforms: Android , iPhone , iPad , mobile web, and desktop web. This means any action users can take on Quora can be performed on every platform, including features like editing child and parent topics, reverting operations, and marking questions as best source. Quora introduces a new system aimed at making notifications much more manageable and useful.
Upvotes and follows that are less relevant to users wouldn't be sent individually, instead being aggregated into grouped notifications and sent once a day. This includes random upvotes on old answers, upvotes and follows from people users don't know, who have almost no followers, etc. Notifications that are more relevant would still be sent individually and immediately.
These include things like upvotes and follows from people users may know or be interested in, as well as upvotes on recent answers. Quora starts attracting continued controversy for using robots.
American show host Glenn Beck publishes his first answer to a question on Quora. Quora announces a change in its moderation system introducing reporting as the sole method for dealing with content or users that violate Quora.
Until then, a handful of active users Quora Admins and Quora Reviewers both discontinued programs had moderation capabilities, most notably, the ability to collapse an answer or block a user. Quora introduces a new page for writers, with aims at offering a focused experience for those who want to answer questions that provides new ways of discovering questions, better question suggestions, more control over what questions users see, and new tools for managing the questions users want to answer.
Some of the bigger changes include a new page called "Write" that replaces "Open Questions", better question suggestions from the "Top Questions" feed, a new tool called "Answer Later" to help keep track of questions users want to answer, integration of users' "Knows About" topics so they can keep up to date with new questions from them, and a "Pass" button to let users know which questions they don't want to answer.
Quora introduces Search Filters, a tool that allows users filter search results by topic, author, recency, and content type. It was that kind of star power that soon attracted the mainstream. Another distinctive feature is Quora's interface, which is similar to other social media platforms. Users sign up and can follow feeds that contain questions and answers on different topics, like science or food. A user's homepage is an aggregated list of all the most recent activity in those chosen feeds.
What Is Quora? Key Takeaways Quora is a crowdsourced question and answer platform that is reliant on an active community for content and development. Although the company initially had no revenue model, it now makes money through advertisements that are integrated within the questions and answers.
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In March , Quora acquired Parlio. In April of that year, the company also began a limited rollout of advertising on the site. Following this announcement in early , a beta of Quora in French was announced. Quora requires users to register with their real names rather than an Internet pseudonym screen name ; although verification of names is not required, false names can be reported by the community.
This was done with the ostensible intent of adding credibility to answers, but Quora also has thousands of anonymous answers with thousands of upvotes. Visitors unwilling to log in or use cookies have had to resort to workarounds to use the site.
They can upvote or downvote answers, and suggest edits to extant answers provided by other users. Quora has developed its own algorithm to rank answers, which works similarly to Google PageRank. Quora uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud technology to host the servers that run its website.
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