Now with mobile app!

It seems like Quora has been releasing at least one new patch to their Android app each day lately. That is probably an exaggeration, but they have come pretty fast. I have to say, their app is really good now. I find it better than the web site in some ways, but mostly the same. I am quite impressed. I wonder how long they can keep it up: There is no advertising, and they would be hard pressed to sell the answers, even those by renowned experts in their fields, since there is nothing to stop the same people from giving the same answers somewhere else for free.

The site seems to become steadily more popular. This means more stupidity, but the system still works well in keeping the quality stuff at the top. There seems to be quite a bit of trolling in the religion-related subforums, but that is to be expected. Science-related questions still get great answers. Since a question can appear in several forums (have several topic tags) simultaneously, I keep discovering new topics that I want to follow.

As a result, Quora is eating into my book-reading time. This bothers me, but then my book time was pretty thin already. It also eats into my Twitter time and Google+ time, which bothers me less. Hopefully nobody on Google+ notices that I only read the people I know best, and only a few times a day at most.

Long-time readers of the Chaos Node will know that I have a tendency to have “fads”, usually of 2-3 weeks duration, when I spend particularly much time on a particular activity. Then it fades for a while until the next time. I would guess this is one of those fads, but I won’t know for sure until it has faded. In the meantime, I enjoy learning new things, seeing human minds working, and even answering a few questions myself.