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Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow?
We're looking for a place our partners can collaborate on questions/answers about our platform. We're thinking of going with Confluence Questions for now. I would love to have a higher quality portal along the lines of Stack Overflow. Something like Rocket.Chat on Meteor that deploys to Heroku. Perhaps something really nice that already exists on Meteor could be tailored for questions/answers. Any ideas?
- slap_shot 10y agoHave you considered Discourse? It isn't a true Q/A platform like Stack Overflow or Quora, but if you treat the initial post a question and the replies as answers it works. Also, this guy claims to have written a plugin that gives it Q/A functionality: https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-use-for-a-question-and-answer-type-page/17772/2 https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-use-f...
- johncoltrane 10y agoWhy not Stack Overflow?
- dvdcxn 10y agoBecause presumably it must be internally hosted as it will discuss commercial, proprietary software. Even if not, would we want to muddy Stack Overflow with the OP's customer support?
- brudgers 10y agoUsing various StackExchange sites for product support is not all that unusual. A lot of them are rolled into others rather than StackOverflow, but AskUbuntu is one that stands alone.
- koolhead17 10y agoAskbot: https://askbot.com/ https://askbot.com/
- mindcrime 10y agoOSQA - http://www.osqa.net http://www.osqa.net - https://github.com/dzone/OSQA https://github.com/dzone/OSQA
- JaggedJax 10y agoI don't know too much about it, but Question2Answer is an open source project that is basically what you're asking for. I don't think it fits the "really nice" part though. http://www.question2answer.org http://www.question2answer.org
- sgdesign 10y agoYou could adapt Telescope to work for Q&A: http://telescopeapp.org http://telescopeapp.org
- ms4720 10y agoPrivate Reddit Server?
- realtarget 10y agoYou can try Questions2Answer http://www.question2answer.org/ http://www.question2answer.org/ https://github.com/q2a/question2answer https://github.com/q2a/question2answer