Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in August 2023. At the time of publishing, it was projected to have over 346 million visitors in April 2024.

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    7 months ago

    Quora was supposed to be the high-brow answer to Yahoo Answers, but then Yahoo Answers was killed off.

    Eventually the muppets found their way to Quora. Probably by accident at first, but the Quora moderation didn’t stop enough of the muppetry and now it’s just Yahoo Answers pretending not to be.

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      7 months ago

      Was it ever high brow? I never really noticed it until the past few years

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        7 months ago

        That’s what their marketing team decided to say.

        Then they decided to pay people for activity.