Ask HN: Open Source Alternative to Stack Overflow?

11 points by ericmuyser 9 years ago | 10 comments

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 9 years ago |

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...

JaggedJax 9 years ago |

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

mindcrime 9 years ago |

OSQA

- http://www.osqa.net

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

sgdesign 9 years ago |

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

realtarget 9 years ago |

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

koolhead17 9 years ago |

Askbot: https://askbot.com/

johncoltrane 9 years ago |

Why not Stack Overflow?

dvdcxn 9 years ago | |

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?

brudgers 9 years ago | | |

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.

ms4720 9 years ago |

Private Reddit Server?