Thanks for additional insight on some of the issues they had, as well as providing an insight into what you didn't like about their implementation. Enjoy reading your comments.
Apologies for some duplication in previous comments to yourself, but think other readers may find value in this reply too 👍
But the success of the platform relied solely on its 1 million SP delegation from Steemit, Inc. When Ned to it away, the Musing fell apart. The team was powering down constantly and was incapable of compensating for the loss of Steemit's delegation with large upvotes of their own.
I think the road to building a platform that users love can be bumpy and in the past delegation has been easy to blame. Before any kind of delegation and curation by Quello, it's important to have a solid foundation that users can enjoy using without just the rewards (from a Quello delegation). Let's face it, enough people use Quora and they don't receive anything, it's because they find the content valuable.
As mentioned, I'm sure there will be problems, issues to solves, but as my background is largely leading product teams I'm a firm believer in iteration and by listening and working this community, anything is possible.
The worst part of it was that all the top-level answers were stored on a centralized proprietary database controlled by Musing. Only links to the answers were stored on-chain. Musing.io was thus the only front end with access to the content and only the comments to answers were immutable. It was an attempt at exploiting the reward pool.
In Quello, we'll be doing the opposite, all posts (comments or root) will be stored with enough information for them to stand on their own on the blockchain, and within our internal database, we'll be storing references simply to allow for flexibility into how we rank the questions and answers.
Your comment yesterday did make me think further into how more could be stored on-chain and think I have some improvements I'd be able to post MVP to extend that.
Once again thanks for your feedback 👍