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Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month,<\/a> Yahoo\u2019s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now \u2013 a move that indicated Yahoo\u2019s plans to bring its desktop QA site to the App Store. However, at the time, the app still required an invite in order to test it out \u2013 that restriction was\u00a0lifted Thursday,<\/a> and the app is open to all.<\/p>\n Getting an invite to try the service wasn\u2019t difficult \u2013 you only had to email a request to a given address if you wanted in. But the existence of the extra step likely discouraged many users from signing up.<\/p>\n Yahoo Answers, which still sees 300 million monthly users worldwide, is one of Yahoo\u2019s better-known properties, if only because of the low-quality, sometimes frightening and sometimes hilarious answers that have\u00a0been posted to its site over the years.<\/p>\n Among much hand-wringing in the media industry and the problems of \u201cfake news\u201d and vitriol circulating on the web and social media, Yahoo Answers is a definite case-in-point as to why everyone on the web doesn\u2019t deserve an equal voice. It\u2019s crowdsourcing at its finest, which sometimes means humanity at its worst.<\/p>\n From kickstarting memes like \u201cHow is babby formed?\u201d\u00a0<\/a>to questions you hope are trolls making jokes <\/a>to, these days, a front page often filled with outright racist commentary, Yahoo Answers is in a precarious position to say the least.\u00a0It will need to clean up its act on mobile, or risk getting booted from the app store for breaking Google\u2019s and Apple\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n The new app includes several key features, like the ability to ask questions that are matched with qualified responders, the ability to follow others in a Twitter-like fashion, give thanks with a \u201cthank you\u201d and emoji buttons, notifications, and it supports rich media like images and links.<\/p>\n The app is available now on both iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Article source: http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/techcrunch\/social\/~3\/Q_tFIPhVL4A\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo\u2019s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now \u2013 a move that indicated <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,7,14,15,6,12,11],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-update","tag-computer-news","tag-downloads","tag-microsoft-download-news","tag-networking-updates","tag-technology-update","tag-wordpress-plugin-download","tag-wordpress-theme-download"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"tumblr_inline_ohutvgnbzj1qhxx5s_500\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/51c58_tumblr_inline_ohutvgnbzj1qhxx5s_500.png?resize=500%2C379\")
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