Feature Releases by Rob Lion was about the silent release of the Ask Followup feature.
Quora as Eternal Recurrence: The history of the first iteration of Follow-Up Questions by Nick Nicholas was about how bizarre it was that a feature abandoned in 2010 was revived; there was a jest about how it was like a recently thawed mammoth.
I thank Dot McHale for joining the dots in https://bugorfeature.quora.com/B…
By removing details, and forcing us to ask only “canonical” questions, Quora is making it harder for querents to get questions that actually help them.
By enabling follow ups, I guess, Quora is trying to make it easier for those querents to refine the question first asked, so that they can get the information they want.
I don’t think for a second that’s actually going to work out, but it does make sense. And if that wasn’t what was going on in their heads, well, Quora UX does encourage a fair amount of paranoia…