You're right, thanks.

I'm giving my nod (for whatever that's worth) to the Stack* sites for putting questions right on the home page

I agree, Quora has a pretty bad first-time user experience.

Totally. StackExchange sites welcome you with a display of their goods as soon as you approach the front of house, but having just headed over to Quora for the first time ever, I felt like I had been chased up a blind alley and couldn't find a doorway. I managed to sneak in through a crack in the fence (by going to another page as suggested in this thread, but the site front end seems to be designed to put off visitors.

Especially the "we've opted you into 15 different e-mail notifications that you'll have to disable one-by-one".