Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow?

Posted by ericmuyser on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by slap_shot on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:27PM (#11842950)

Have 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-f...

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by JaggedJax on Sunday June 05, 2016 @07:24PM (#11843691)

I 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

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by mindcrime on Sunday June 05, 2016 @06:21PM (#11843450)

OSQA

- http://www.osqa.net

- https://github.com/dzone/OSQA

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by sgdesign on Sunday June 05, 2016 @08:41PM (#11843955)

You could adapt Telescope to work for Q&A: http://telescopeapp.org

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by realtarget on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:21AM (#11845170)

You can try Questions2Answer http://www.question2answer.org/ https://github.com/q2a/question2answer

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by koolhead17 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:55PM (#11843073)

Askbot: https://askbot.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by johncoltrane on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:51PM (#11843049)

Why not Stack Overflow?

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by dvdcxn on Sunday June 05, 2016 @05:21PM (#11843194)

Because 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?

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by brudgers on Sunday June 05, 2016 @05:57PM (#11843353)

Using 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.

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Re:Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow? by ms4720 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:19PM (#11844242)

Private Reddit Server?

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