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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by jaclaz on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:43AM (#22145579)
Just in case, add a question mark at the end of the Quora URL (that prompts you to login) and refresh.

Links from within Quora miss that and then you are prompted to login, but if you add the question mark you can access the target without logging in.

Re:Layoffs hit Quora by arcturus17 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:37AM (#22145739)
Thanks for the tip and I mean that genuinely but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.
Re:Layoffs hit Quora by jaclaz on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:01AM (#22145927)
>but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.

Not only that, this (as well as many other simple "tricks" or "workarounds") creates (arbitrarily) two kinds of users, those that know the trick and those that don't (and likely create two different sets of user opinions).

I mean, to me (because I know the little trick) usage of Quora is relatively painless (though I still try my best to avoiding using it because of the mostly terribly bad content) whilst another user that doesn't know the trick and doesn't want to login may have the illusion that the content, once accessed, may have some value.

Re:Layoffs hit Quora by mamon on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:25AM (#22145980)
Also, this might constitute a fellony, basically you're "hacking" Quora, using technical tricks to circumvent security measures they put in place. And no, it doesn't matter that the trick is so trivial.
Re:Layoffs hit Quora by jaclaz on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:15AM (#22146112)
Sure, that is why it is - rectius was until now - a secret, that only a selected number of criminals knew.