# Quora 6 Hacker News commenters recommended Quora and 30 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Question-and-answer site where some people find expert answers from primary sources, but critics agree it is cluttered with ads, spam and low-quality answers. ## What people warn about - Confusing, hard-to-use interface (3 comments): "Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183124)) "Quora's thoroughly enshitified user interface is so spectacularly hard to use and intentionally, aggressively, darkly patterned." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873694)) "Quora's UI is just trash. It's hard to realize the answer you are reading is not an answer to the question you have opened" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183339)) - Low-quality content, spam and ads (4 comments): "Quora seems to be largely filled with adverts-posing-as-answers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483223)) "it succumbed to low quality questions and answers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863671)) "Quora was a slop/spam central even before genai" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701517)) - Engagement changes hurt answer quality (3 comments): "Quora which over optimized the site for engagement growth but eventually became completely useless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888553)) "Or the way Quora destroyed its own site in a quest to "improve questions"." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301445)) "Quora, sadly, is a good example of enshittification." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483400)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Hacker News](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hacker-news.md): 361 recommend - [Reddit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/reddit.md): 261 recommend - [Old Reddit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/old-reddit.md): 60 recommend - [Slashdot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slashdot.md): 32 recommend - [4chan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/4chan.md): 28 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.quora.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Quora", https://hackerapproved.com/p/quora/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).