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Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow?

11 pointsby ericmuyseralmost 9 years ago
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?

8 comments

slap_shotalmost 9 years ago
Have you considered Discourse? It isn&#x27;t a true Q&#x2F;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&#x2F;A functionality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.discourse.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;is-discourse-suitable-for-use-for-a-question-and-answer-type-page&#x2F;17772&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.discourse.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;is-discourse-suitable-for-use-f...</a>
JaggedJaxalmost 9 years ago
I don&#x27;t know too much about it, but Question2Answer is an open source project that is basically what you&#x27;re asking for. I don&#x27;t think it fits the &quot;really nice&quot; part though.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.question2answer.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.question2answer.org</a>
mindcrimealmost 9 years ago
OSQA<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osqa.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osqa.net</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dzone&#x2F;OSQA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dzone&#x2F;OSQA</a>
sgdesignalmost 9 years ago
You could adapt Telescope to work for Q&amp;A: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;telescopeapp.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;telescopeapp.org</a>
realtargetalmost 9 years ago
You can try Questions2Answer <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.question2answer.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.question2answer.org&#x2F;</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;q2a&#x2F;question2answer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;q2a&#x2F;question2answer</a>
koolhead17almost 9 years ago
Askbot: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;askbot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;askbot.com&#x2F;</a>
johncoltranealmost 9 years ago
Why not Stack Overflow?
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ms4720almost 9 years ago
Private Reddit Server?