- You could one-click download stuff for offline consumption using local storage. Or just make sure the current Read Later list is always available offline.
- An optional content-only mode could hide all social network graph stuff (who wrote answers, who upvoted them,
- You should be able to filter things in/out of your feed by status: unanswered questions, written today, trending (?), etc. would all be useful.
- Badges, of course.
- A third-party service/extension pair could allow anonymous commenting on answers, questions, etc with throwaway accounts.
- That same extension could also sell extra upvotes/downvotes as microtransactions.
- Favoriting/bookmarking answers.
- Quora should offer a bound book of your questions/answers over the year(s) for a cost, and give you a small cut if someone else buys it.
- Boards should be reworked into blogs and completely rethought as a writing platform Medium-style to get people actually using it.
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Improving Quora Pt. 2
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Improving Quora
- Search sucks. Rip it out and replace it (or at the very least augment it) with a site:quora.com Google search. Split questions/answers/people/blogs/topics/etc out into individual SERPs to browse.
- Main feed should be augmented Circles-style with topic-group feeds. Let users create their own feeds of topics they follow (e.g. Sports including their sports teams, football, etc) or create them for them (Technology, Current Events, etc).
- Users should be able to filter out (or temporarily mute)
specific topics orquestion series ("What's the best restaurant in X?") to clean up their feed. - There's plenty of room to turn Quora into a two-column feed, with your regular stream on the left and question/answer pages you open on the right.
- Hovering over a user should show their question/answer/edit counts, a truncated (expandable) bio, their TW status over the years, and their recent top answers. A tab for following them or sending them a quick private message would be rad, too.
- The followers/following pages are absolutely horrendous and would benefit from a more grid-based layout with hovercards.
- Answers to questions should be able to be sorted by upvotes, comments, recency, length, or the standard sort order.
- I should be able to anonymously follow questions or upvote answers from my feed, probably with a tiny (optional) dropdown on the respective buttons.
- The notifications shade is a tiny dropdown that always has to scroll. Really? Beef that sucker up.
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