Why does my phone battery get burning hot when I use Quora and rapidly drain? How much CPU can this app possibly need?

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Being a web developer myself, trust me I feel your pain. The trend these days has been to incredible levels of software bloat. Teams get laser-focused on delivering feature after feature, and when there’s no new features planned, they fix bugs and the once-in-a-blue-moon security vulnerability.

Far down the list, after major bugs are fixed, after the design team can’t dream up any new features, some dev might take some spare time to look at performance issues.

You can’t blame just Quora on this. Keeping everything working across a ton of browsers, mobile architectures, and through everything changing over time, takes more work than your average software company has on tap.

And there’s also the question of what how the developers of software might think the users are using it. Personally, I use Quora primarily on my desktop, that’s the most natural place to me to use it. But most other people I run into on Quora use their phones as the primary interface.

I don’t think Quora has really wrapped their heads around that. They might think that most people use their Quora phone apps like I do, to browse answers and questions to answer later when I’m on my desktop. The time I spend on it is limited so I never really feel that pain.

There was a time when pulling up one of the answer writing interfaces caused my desktop CPU to peg at 100% and my fan to go crazy, I had to be careful to only answer questions on the other interface. So glad they fixed that one.