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Forums replacements
vascowhite edited this page Nov 12, 2015
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We're looking for a new forums tech. Input welcome.
- ability to post news (eg releases)
- focus on answering questions so we have little duplicate questions
- great search
- responsive design
We want to replace the forum because of
- bad search-engine
- much duplicated questions
- no possibility to mark duplicate questions
- no possibility to mark off-topic questions (like basic questions how to configure apache or similar)
URL: http://discourse.org<br > Demo/Example: http://community.nethserver.org/
Pro:
- ability to post news (eg releases)
- great, real time search
- responsive design
- tagging to mark questions as duplicate/off-topic/answered
- Full Forum Software (with Topics,...)
- Supports GitHub Login!
- Shows You Similar Topics before You post a new one
Contra:
- not focused on asking/answering questions
- not good at reducing duplicate questions
URL: http://stackexchange.com<br > Demo/Example of integrated version: http://askubuntu.com/
Pro:
- Question Portal
- tagging to mark questions as duplicate/off-topic/answered
- nice points system and all that for participants answering questions
Contra:
- Not self-hosted (by ownCloud - on the servers of StackExchange)
- Not responsive
- Questions about setting up or using owncloud would be off topic at stackoverflow.
URL: https://askbot.com/<br > Demo/Example: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/
Pro:
- Focus on asking questions and getting answers
- helps prevent duplicate questions
- Self-hosting possible
- tagging to mark questions as duplicate/off-topic/answered
- nice points system and all that for participants answering questions
- notifications system
- SSO and login methods from social media (openID, google, twitter etc)
- responsive design
- choice between self hosting and letting askbot host (seems not expensive)
Contra:
- not so nice for conversations
- not so good with announcements (would have to be tag, we might have to hack the software to show a certain tag on top)
- no sub boards (but tags)
apps.owncloud.com includes an question portal.
Pro:
- focus on answering questions so we have little duplicate questions
Contra:
- won't solve the issue that same questions are asked over and over again
- no ability to post news (eg releases)
- not so great search
- no responsive design