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Perhaps. All I'm saying is that they have good content. Give it a try, you may be surprised to find you like it. Even if they're on an implosion trajectory, Internet Archive will make sure most or all of it stays online. So it won't be a failure if you measure success as "generating positive contributions to the world" instead of dollars.



Nope.

"Worth noting: Quora has no public API, no backup/export tools, blocks anonymous display of answers, and banned the Wayback Machine entirely."

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/453958676529696769


"You agree that this license includes the right for... Quora to make your Content available to others for the publication, distribution, syndication, or broadcast of such Content on other media and services..."

"If you operate a search engine or robot... Quora gives you a... revocable... license... You must follow robots.txt at all times"

"We use these automated technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information... Quora itself does not respond to do not track signals"

"Quora agrees, in the performance of this agreement, to keep non-public information furnished by [government users] in the strictest confidence"

Having cake and eating it too


They banned Wayback Machine?

Quora, you're making it so difficult to like you.


Especially since they are eternally at risk of disappearing, I'm not too optimistic about Quora in the long run. Their competition is doing a lot better.


Wikipedia has good content and doesn't force you to register with some bullshit "growth hacker" tactic. Quora can die.


Wikipedia doesn’t have original content (i.e. the content needs to be based on other sources).


It doesn't have original content but it can link to such content.


Can the Internet Archive/ArchiveTeam scrape Quora with their regwall?


Question really is will. And IA respects robots.txt. Which is very reasonable given that they operate within a quasi-legal domain in which it's best that they don't archive anything that the archive owner doesn't at least implicitly want to be archived.


Which is why you scrape while the site is in business, and then only display once they've gone out of business.




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