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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by tanilama on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:48AM (#22144973)
I think it is just irrelevant to the web today. I don't think Quora has a future to be an independent business.

To me Quora is just a more entitled/self-righteous version of Reddit, and much less fun.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by Mirioron on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:14AM (#22145201)
I think that sounds fine though. You could consider HN to be "like reddit" too, but there's still value in HN.
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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by tanilama on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:58AM (#22145307)
HN is not valuing itself at 2B dollars, that is the problem.

It is Quora itself that needs to justify against that valuation, not anyone else. Where that is fine or not, I think the news itself is self-explanatory.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by conjectures on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:43PM (#22148506)
It's interesting how the value the owners get from HN is more kudos and relevant discourse.

I'm finding it hard to think of other domains with succesful quasi-public institutions run by for-profits without monetization. Are there other examples?

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