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This very week you had the Quora users info leak (https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update) where users info, including and their encrypted passwords, were compromised. Password reuse, or even following a simple pattern for having different password for each site (i.e. a seed+site name) is the main problem here. If one site falls, then it should not be trivial to deduce your password or how to attack it for other, maybe more important or secure, sites.

Quora has a decent community of developers and computer scientists while offering great writing experience and content exposure for a blog platform, though its primary purpose is being a Q&A site. [0] The code rendering and presentation on the site is also on par with what you'd expect from sites like Stack Exchange and ilk. One downside however is the extremely low quality content on some topics (most, rather) that gives rise to hive mind and polarization, especially around sensitive subject matter. [0] https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Blogs-on-Quora

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I said a lot, not everything, you've chosen three, I'm happy to respond: A full name is required to add content to Quora, if you just want to browse, you aren't stopped from doing that with a different/fake name, just ask https://www.quora.com/John-Smith-3000?share=1 We ask people to log in to see content, but it's not required, you can add ?share=1 to the end of any Quora URL to see the content. We also don't require login to view posts. More about that here: https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better Questions aren't "yours" answers and posts are though. Questions are a collaborative resource, so not unlike an entire Wikipedia page, you can't delete it as an individual, though if there are no answers to the question, you can delete it within a particular window of activity. If you go anonymous on the question your name won't be associated with it, same thing if you delete your account. More on question ownership here: https://www.quora.com/Quora-Policies-and-Guidelines/What-is-Quoras-pol… I respect that you clearly feel that Quora should work differently than it does, and that's fine, we've continued to make changes and improvements, some which people like, some which people don't, but the goal is to create a great resource for people, if you think it's not a great resource and it's useless to you, we'll keep trying to improve, though that may never…

Timely question https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1

Quora. Current holder of the #1 position on HN's front page with this: https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1 Just don't. And if you have, close your account. (Not that it would have helped, it sounds like Quora "helpfully" retained user data for you "in case you wanted to reactivate your account", and that all got popped too...)

https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update seems to be misleading, especially the introduction. They start with 'some user data was compromised', however, it seems that for 'approximately 100 million Quora users' – that's basically all users! – all user data was compromised … In addition, many questions remain open, for example: Which ' leading digital forensics and security firm' is working for Quora? I hope for Quora that they met their 72-hour deadline according to the GDPR. Looking at https://www.quora.com/about/privacy, it does not look if Quora was / is GDPR-ready. They do not mention any legal basis for the processing (art. 13 GDPR) and they do not inform about their GDPR data representative in the EU (art. 27 GDPR).

https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better You can bypass the issue with a URL trick (?share=1)

>What exactly does it do? It does this: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/43179/how-can-i-read-all-an… And it's officially supported: https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better But you still need to sign up/in in to casually browse. >And is this a bad practice? It's pretty user hostile which is why I personally never used the site.

As skolos mentioned you can add '?share=1' to a Quora URL to view all the answers.[1] To make this easier for myself, I use a bookmarklet with: javascript:(function(){window.location=window.location.toString()+"?share=1";})() [1] https://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better

http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better "Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL." Works for me the first time and then no longer have to manually add it in for subsequent quora links.

They've even mentioned it on their blog: http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better > Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL. Example: http://www.quora.com/Hostage-Situations/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-a…

This fact was reported on the official Quora blog back in February (http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better). > If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL.

They actually officially communicated about this method: Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL. http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better