I just answered a similar question.
Don't get me wrong, I like Quora. It's a fun pastime, but that is all it is.
No, for the decline in answer views: There are some writers that still get them, in particular those with established followers.
Plus, if you write on pop culture or politics, you will still see some activity. But for those of us who write in the technical niches, there have been two things that occurred in the spring of 2023, one in Quora’s control and the other not so much.
(1) The elimination of the ability to edit topics, even when posting you own question. If people don't see you answer, they can't read it. Instead, Quora is relying on AI to select topics. What could go wrong there?
(2) And speaking of AI, Chat GPT became a big thing about the same time. The type of answers I write could be answered by AI at this point. Maybe not better, but the effect is the same when you have a successful restaurant, and someone open a new one across the street. No matter how good you are, everyone flocks to the new one because it is new (and even worse, you now have competition).
(3) And beyond those two items, I feel most of the low-hanging fruit questions have been already answered. How many times do we need to ask, “what is a capacitor,” or what is your favorite color?
- Speaking of the last example, the earlier QPP program flooded Quora with endless derivative questions, and that was a turn off to many readers (and writers).
- The rise of meme spaces and the movement away from real names didn't help either. The lack of moderation (or dumb AI decisions). I have several answers deleted for Sexually explicit content when they are a safe and boring as any answer could be. That’s also annoying.
Maybe Quora just run its course, sort of like Yahoo or MySpace.