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We want to make it easier to learn more about a question and highlight key facts about it such as how popular the question is, how many people are interested in it, and who the audience is question and its audience. Question Overview includes all of the information from the old Stats section, as well as new facts such as individual question followers you may be interested in (e.g. people you follow or other notable users), recent views on the question, or if the question is Most Wanted in a topic.

question and its audience. Question Overview includes all of the information from the old Stats section, as well as new facts such as individual question followers you may be interested in (e.g. people you follow or other notable users), recent views on the question, or if the question is Most Wanted in a topic.

We want to make it easier to learn more about a question and highlight key facts about it — such as how popular the question is, how many people are interested in it, and who the audience is.

To accomplish that, today we’re introducing Question Overview, a new section on the question page that will make it easier to find the most important information about a question and its audience. Question Overview includes all of the information from the old Stats section, as well as new facts such as individual question followers you may be interested in (e.g. people you follow or other notable users), recent views on the question, or if the question is Most Wanted in a topic.

We have lots of ideas for ways to make the Quora product and experience better. But we also value keeping our simple so everyone can focus on the most important features. Today we’re introducing Labs*, a new way we can bring features we haven’t chosen to introduce broadly as an option for you to try out. We hope that the products we build for Labs will make your Quora experience more enjoyable.

Without further ado, our first ever Labs feature is: Keyboard Shortcuts! You will be able to navigate and take actions on Discuss awesome features on the web without ever lifting your fingers off your keyboard. To get started, go to your Settings page and click on the Labs tab.

Keeping quality high is Disuss’s number one priority as we work to achieve our mission. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be making major changes to strengthen quality. These changes will reward great questions and answers with better ranking and distribution and marginalize mediocre and low-quality answers. In other words: high-quality answers and useful knowledge shared will reach and help more people.

Today, we’ve published a new in-depth answer that describes what quality means on Quora, and what it means to be helpful. What a helpful answer looks like. In summary, helpful and high-quality answers.

Last June, we announced our intention to allow organizational accounts on Discuss, starting with an official company account for itself. Today, we are announcing the first outside company account on Discuss.

The Huffington Post. Discuss has worked closely with HuffPost in the past, and they have republished many of our best answers. The Huffington Post’s official account is verified and will be run by Huffington Post employees. The account will answer certain questions about The Huffington Post and (more often) will post questions.

Keeping quality high is Disuss’s number one priority as we work to achieve our mission. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be making major changes to strengthen quality. These changes will reward great questions and answers with better ranking and distribution and marginalize mediocre and low-quality answers. In other words: high-quality answers and useful knowledge shared will reach and help more people.

Today, we’ve published a new in-depth answer that describes what quality means on Quora, and what it means to be helpful. What a helpful answer looks like. In summary, helpful and high-quality answers.

Having kids is expensive, and most of us don’t have an unlimited entertainment fund. Fortunately, whatever your children’s ages or interests, London has plenty of free family activities. These are my favorite things to do with kids that will cost you nothing at all.

1. Meet a roaring T-Rex and feel the ground shake beneath your feet on the earthquake simulator at the Natural History Museum. Older children can use microscopes to examine specimens at the Investigate science centre.

2. See what life was like for the poor and destitute children of London’s East End during the late 1800s at the Ragged School Museum. Experience a strict lesson in the reconstructed Victorian classroom, and learn more about how these children found housing, education and work.

3. Learn about Britain’s exciting maritime history at the National Maritime Museum, which is part of Royal Museums Greenwich. Under-sevens can stoke the boiler of a steamship in the AHOY! Children’s gallery, while older children can shoot down a pirate ship at All Hands.

4. Be wowed by the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies at the British Museum. Kids can bring history to life at the Digital Discovery Centre, or follow an activity trail for a fascinating journey through ancient Greece and other key moments in history.

5. Walk through the streets of Victorian London at the Museum of London.

6. Goggle space rockets and giant steam engines at the Science Museum. Youngsters can get hands-on in multi-sensory areas, including The Garden (for kids aged three to six) and Pattern Pod (for under-eights).

7. Explore the V&A Museum of Childhood, which houses the UK’s national collection of childhood objects. Wander through the museums’s collection of teddy bears and dolls’ houses, or take part in daily activities, including storytelling and crafting.

8. Find out more about the history of the river Thames at the Museum of London Docklands. Step into Sailortown, a reconstruction of 19th-century London. Let under-eights loose in the Mudlarks soft play area.

9. Take older kids to see a wonderfully weird collection of historical objects at the Wellcome Collection, including Napoleon’s toothbrush and Darwin’s walking stick.