Some of the comments here are really interesting. A lot of general Quora negativity?
I think the weekly (semi personalised?) Quora 'digest' is one of the only bacn emails I'll open pretty much without fail, almost always ending up on the site. Some of the questions/answers are fascinating.
I also enjoyed the Quora digests until one day the links stopped going directly to the threads but all pointed to a feed page. I assumed this was another dark pattern to boost pageviews and unsubscribed.
I prefer the feed page. There's usually more than one interesting link in a Digest and the pages aren't exactly lightweight on my phone. I wouldn't be so quick to call it a dark pattern; could be a reasonable UX decision based on how people use the emails.
I think the weekly (semi personalised?) Quora 'digest' is one of the only bacn emails I'll open pretty much without fail, almost always ending up on the site. Some of the questions/answers are fascinating.