Quora
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| 2024 | Jacob Stern from The Atlantic published a critical review of Quora, highlighting issues with content quality, advertising, and platform engagement. |
| October 2024 | Quora discontinues Space Subscriptions and Ads Revenue Sharing Programs |
| April 2024 | Quora introduces creator monetization via price per message on Poe |
| April 2024 | Quora enables multi-bot chat functionality on Poe |
| 2023 | Meta Platforms revealed that China's Ministry of Public Security's Spamouflage influence operation had targeted Quora. |
| 2023 | The Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department recommended expanding the party's use of Quora. |
| March 4 2023 | Poe became available on desktop browsers, expanding its accessibility to users. |
| February 3 2023 | Poe was officially launched to the public, allowing users to interact with multiple AI chatbots from different developers. |
| December 2022 | Quora announced the development of Poe, a chatbot feature that serves as a web front end for various large language models (LLMs). |
| November 22 2021 | Quora removed the ability to answer questions anonymously, encouraging users who need anonymity to create alternative accounts with pseudonyms, aiming to reduce policy-violating anonymous answers. |
| August 5 2021 | Quora launched a monetization feature for content creators and introduced Quora+, a subscription service charging $5 monthly or $50 annually for access to paywalled content. |
| April 2021 | The Top Writers Program was officially retired for English-language users, though it would continue in other languages. |
| April 19 2021 | Quora eliminated the requirement for users to use their real names, allowing users to create accounts with pseudonyms instead. |
| 2020 | Quora did not select any English-language Top Writers for this year. |
| 2020 | Ben Nimmo of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab noted Quora's vulnerability to fake accounts and disinformation. |
| June 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo announced that the company would permanently allow remote working for its employees. |
| January 2020 | Quora laid off an undisclosed number of employees at its San Francisco Bay Area and New York offices due to financial reasons. |
| 2019 | Quora did not select any English-language Top Writers for this year. |
| December 2019 | Quora opened its first international engineering office in Vancouver, focusing on machine learning and other engineering functions. In the same month, the platform launched versions in Arabic, Gujarati, Hebrew, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu languages. |
| May 2019 | Quora was valued at $2 billion and was finalizing a $60 million investment round led by Valor Equity Partners, despite struggling to turn a profit with only $20 million in revenue in 2018. |
| 2018 | People's Daily reported on the potential for Chinese citizens to use Quora to promote China's image internationally. |
| December 2018 | Quora rescinds its real names policy, allowing users to use pseudonyms |
| December 2018 | Quora allows contributors to monetize their content and launches Quora+ subscription service |
| December 2018 | Quora experienced a major data breach affecting approximately 100 million user accounts, compromising personal information including names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and linked social media data. |
| December 2018 | Quora announces its first international engineering office in Vancouver |
| November 2018 | Quora launches the 'Spaces' feature, converting existing blogs to spaces |
| September 2018 | Quora reported receiving 300 million unique visitors every month, highlighting its significant user base despite lacking mainstream cultural dominance compared to Twitter. |
| September 2018 | Quora announced plans to develop additional language versions including Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch. |
| May 2018 | Quora launches Sharing feature and link sharing capabilities |
| April 2018 | Quora launched beta versions of its platform in Hindi, Portuguese, and Indonesian languages. |
| February 2018 | Quora launches the Links feature, showing links to articles on other websites in users' feeds |
| 2017 | Quora introduced a Partner Program that allowed top contributors to monetize their content and engagement on the platform. |
| September 2017 | Quora launched a beta version of its platform in Japanese language. |
| August 2017 | Quora discontinued question details feature and replaced it with an optional source URL input field, aiming to encourage more descriptive question phrasing. Existing question details were preserved by storing them in comments under their respective questions. |
| May 2017 | Quora introduced beta versions of its platform in German and Italian languages. |
| April 2017 | Quora reported 190 million monthly unique visitors, nearly doubling its user base from 100 million in the previous year, and secured Series D funding with a company valuation of $1.8 billion. |
| March 20 2017 | Quora implemented the new anonymity policy changes, removing the ability to comment anonymously or toggle answers between anonymous and public modes. |
| February 9 2017 | Quora announced significant changes to its anonymity feature, modifying how anonymous questions and edits are handled on the platform. |
| January 2017 | Quora announced a beta version of its platform in French language. |
| October 2016 | Quora launched its public Spanish language version, marking the beginning of its multilingual expansion strategy. |
| April 2016 | Quora began a limited rollout of advertising on its platform, with Uber being the first company to place an advertisement on the site. |
| April 2016 | Quora launched its blogging platform, allowing users to create and publish long-form content directly on the site. |
| March 2016 | Quora acquired the online community website Parlio, expanding its platform and community engagement capabilities. |
| December 2015 | Quora introduced limitations on question details, restricting descriptions to 800 characters and questions to 150 characters, while leaving existing questions unaffected. |
| 2014 | Quora was selected as part of the Y Combinator Summer 2014 batch, notable for being described as 'the oldest Y-Combinator ever'. |
| 2014 | Female users reported widespread sexist questions and inconsistent moderation, highlighting issues with the platform's content management. |
| 2014 | Quora began expanding its platform by introducing new features and growing its user base significantly during this period. |
| April 2014 | Quora raised $80 million in funding from Tiger Global, achieving a reported valuation of $900 million. |
| November 2013 | Quora introduced the Stats feature, allowing users to view detailed statistics about views, upvotes, and shares of their questions and answers. |
| May 2013 | Quora extended full-text search feature to mobile devices and announced that usage metrics had tripled compared to the previous year. |
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