Quora: the knowledge platform

Noel D. Smith (nds80)

4 years ago

Just use a browser. Excruciatingly slow, buggy, and counterintuitive. Automatic formatting always causes problems. I can indent my own paragraphs, rather than crash. Hyperlink format will hijack the whole post. Takes all day to load every page because of all the bells and whistles, and if you try to use them you might crash. The buttons are too small, I didn't mean to press that! Instead of dismissing a notification I wait while it loads a thread I don't need so I can back up and start over.

A Google user

5 years ago

I would love the app and would love to rate it 5 stars but it is so glitchy and it's so bad that I can't even get through one sentence without a freeze-up. This app freezes my keyboard and locks my phone up everytime I start typing an answer. The app is updated and so is the software on my phone, along with any other program/software needed to successfully run an app. I love the website, but I'll have to delete the app until the bugs and glitches are ironed out.

A Google user

5 years ago

I liked the app before I realized that it's having serious memory leakage or related issues. I will be writing a long answer to a question and it will start to freeze, go non-responsive, trigger Android's crash warning system, and/or start mushing my words together. That's incredibly frustrating and has made me give up before on giving an answer I'd been working on for a while. It literally just happened again. Please fix this.

A Google user

5 years ago

Great content, I've used quora on the computer for years. However, this app is flawed. Glitchy typing (that sometimes makes zero sense as to what its doing [and I know its not my phone because that's the only app that I've ever had trouble like that]), and it will randomly freeze and close itself out. Like it goes to my homescreen, which is clearly unprepared for such a random hard stop of the app, and takes a second to load all of my apps onto the screen. Again, I love the content! But fix this

A Google user

6 years ago

I really love the concept of Quora itself. I've found articles that relate to my problem very well and I learn a lot. However, I was using the browser version and it suddenly asked me to download the mobile app in the middle of my read. I couldn't close out of it so I downloaded. I thought the app was cool and convenient, until I saw how buggy and glitchy it is... Really a disappointment.

A Google user

5 years ago

The app itself is alright. It's easy to use if a little slow. However, I would have never downloaded it if I weren't constantly being harassed to install it when reading an answer on mobile. When trying to scroll more than half a page down to read an answer, an UNDISMISSABLE POPUP appears and tells you you can keep reading with the Quora app. There are 2 buttons on the pop up, both of which will take you to the app store if you don't already have the app. Ridiculous.

Chris Snook

4 years ago

Hello! Quora is a very fun site/app. The discourse is more intelligent than on any social media site these days. However, the app could be programmed a little better. It uses up a lot of RAM data and sometimes crashes other apps which have things like music running in the background. Sometimes, I am unable to type an answer because the text box does not show up. Some other times, the text entry box will begin underneath the title text, a GUI layout issue. Please improve :) otherwise very good!

Ed Pulella

4 years ago

Stuck on "Select 10 topics", no matter how many I choose I can't dismiss the prompt, which renders the app completely useless. Well done. Edit: I was able to access the app by going to the website and selecting those 10 topics there. 1 extra star because the app itself is decent, but literally making it impossible for people to complete the sign up process through it is just bad design and forcing people to chose those 10 topics is bad in general.

Tina McBride

4 years ago

I love Quora on the phone, but lately it's consistently crashing or forces my screen to go completely black. Writing on this app has become a nightmare, with the cursor moving up the post. It also freezes for 3-30 seconds before allowing you to continue typing. Or if you try to delete a word, that sometimes becomes a whole other nightmare. Thankfully its pretty good at saving drafts considering how often it glitches.

A Google user

6 years ago

The only reason I got this app was because while reading a post via email (something I've been able to do for months with no issue) it kept giving me a pop-up for the app. I was unable to close the pop-up or go back. I had to choose out of the email, go back in and reopon which usually brought me to the website with no issues. But now when I'm on the website to read something it blocks me from being able to read anything and just covers the majority of the screen in this impossible to ignore ad for the app. So I reluctantly download the app and it ahead me if I have a profile on quora, which I do. I log on and then it tells me to set up my profile! I can't do anything else until I set up a profile, which I had already done. Now I can't find the post I was trying to read! Very frustrating!

A Google user

5 years ago

Forcing a user to download your unnecessary app just so i can finish what I was reading IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ARTICLE is the UX equivalent of turning off a gas pump in the middle of someone filling up just so they can go inside and use their rewards card - annoying, unnecessary, and incredibly distracting. Feel free to continue doing this if you want to keep shooting yourself in the foot as far as onboarding goes. You know you don't need to do it, and forcing it on users will never be okay.

Judy Jorgenson

2 years ago

I had a hard time finding and turning off notifications. When I had this app before I enjoyed it except the constant nagging notifications. They became overwhelming. But couldn't turn them off, so I had to turn off the app. I still get notifications every day like 4 times a day! Sometimes more!!! So I'm hoping that things are different and I can turn off the notifications!! Content is good. Just don't send notifications!!!!

A Google user

5 years ago

In this app when I open an article up, it would only show first 5 articles, and after that, they take very long time to load When I tap on a blank part of the article where that image is supposed to be, and then I wait about 15 seconds, and the error message will say, "failed to open image." When I turn the wi-fi off, all of the articles, including the images will show up. When I have wi-fi on, it would use up alot of memory, not enough for the quora articles, or its images to open

Nick Gaugler

2 years ago

This app rarely works. Attempting to open questions from my emailed digest usually results in "Something went wrong. We are looking into it. Please try again in a few minutes.". It's never fixed in a few minutes and if I copy the link from the email and just open in a web browser it works every time. I installed the app for dark mode support, but with this failure ratio it's best to just uninstall and use Chrome.

A Google user

6 years ago

Trying to type answers with a physical keyboard causes various issues. Sometimes it steadily takes longer for the characters to echo in the window, suggesting a memory leak. In a couple cases, the on-screen keyboard kept popping up after every keystroke. Also, I occasionally get repeated pop-up notices that the System UI has segfaulted. I don't know exactly what's wrong, but I do know I don't have these issues with any other app.

David Chu

11 months ago

This app used to be one of my favorites, and I even became one of the top contributors. Now when I follow a link that arrives as a notification, it errors with a message that something went wrong. I tried clearing the cache and that didn't work. It seems like there is little support for the app. At least I can go to Quora via a web browser without these errors. The app used to work very well. Maybe they don't have enough staff to fix the app. Sigh.

Jim Shepard

1 year ago

Switches articles while I'm reading and makes me search all over again to find that same article. As long as I stay on the main article and don't look at other related stories or replies, it work. Just don't touch the button that says expand artical. I read three words and it goes to homepage. A typical worthless app. It's time for something different than apps. After 20 years of apps they aren't any better.