On returning from my week break, I found that @-mention autocompletion no longer brought up my blog Necrologue, only the associated Quora topic Necrologue. (And a week ago, it used to.)
UX here makes you paranoid, and I immediately assumed the blog was under limdist interdict. I may or may not be wrong; I’ve repeated the experiment with the other blogs I follow or know of.
Autocomplete succeeds in bringing up the blog:
- Quora Product Updates
- Quora Unofficial Product Management Blog
- Life at Quora
- Bug? or Feature?
- The Still-Alive Poets Society
- Why, language?
- Why, Booty?
- Quomedy Rhetoric
- Edified by the Margin
- The Memes of Production
- Magister Masiello’s Belligerent Bardolatry
- Oh, the Humanities!
- Can we say it?
Autocomplete fails in bringing up the blog:
- Necrologue
- Argologue
- The Insurgency
- Hellenica
- Opɯdʒɯlɯklɑr In Exile
- Gallery of Awesomery
- Dispatches from the Other Language Quoras
- Aphypnēsis Amichaiou
- Το Ελληνάδικο της Quora
- The Quora Lectionary
I am a co-owner of two of the blogs that come up on autocomplete: Bardolatry, Memes of Production. But I did not create them. I created all the blogs which fail to come up for me on autocomplete.
So on more careful inspection, it turns out that autocomplete now fails for the name of any blog you created. (I invite confirmation from others.)
Given that a BNBR was just issued against a Necrologue post, you can see why I was paranoid.
And Quora UX certainly does cultivate paranoia…
UPDATE: From comments, my paranoia may well be justified after all.