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Sites like Quora with bad design and all that are very common.

But sites like Quora with all the buzz and publicity they have, NYT writeups and all, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Interesting that the Quora devs apparently don't believe in HTML templates, all their layouts are hand coded in Python (source: http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-templates-or-an-OR...) . It's of course doable, but I think choices like these have a subtle impact on the end result.

disclaimer: I am the author of a popular HTML template system for Python.




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