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looking for a comparison of the best Open Source Question and Answer-Engines


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hi there

 

 

i am looking for a comparison of the best Open Source Question and Answer-Engines.

 

untill now i have found two alive an vibrant systems:  - vanillaforums and question2answers - two Question and Answer-systems

 

- guess that they are much more active and the developement is much more active and sustainable than the question2answer-developent

 

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla

29,184 commits

254 branches

0 packages

107 releases

117 contributors

 

https://github.com/q2a/question2answer

1,291 commits

6 branches

0 packages

15 releases

20 contributors

 

the Stackexchange-people have listed some engines: Are there any clones/alternatives for running a Stack Exchange style Q&A site?

 

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/are-there-any-clones-alternatives-for-running-a-stack-exchange-style-qa-site

 

Question2Answer question2answer: http://www.question2answer.org/

- cahoots

- phpancake

LampCMS

- Coordino

- Q&A (Is a WordPress Plugin)

- Arrayshift

- Vanilla Forums

 

see Question2Answer question2answer: http://www.question2answer.org/ - Free Open Source Q&A Software for PHP

 

a PHP-Version:

 



Easy to set up

Q2A takes 5 minutes (or less!) to install.

Easy styling with CSS themes.

Supports translation into any language.

Custom sidebar, widgets, pages and links.

SEO features such as XML Sitemap and neat URLs.

Fast and secure

PHP/MySQL scalable to millions of users and posts.

Safe from XSS, CSRF and SQL injection attacks.

Beat spam with captchas, moderation and/or flagging.

 

 

 

see a list of clones:

 

Askbot: http://askbot.org/en/questions/

 

Biostar: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central -

 

Diango-Knowledge: https://github.com/zapier/django-knowledge

 

LampCMS: http://www.lampcms.com/

 

Mamute: http://www.mamute.org

 

Kliqqi-CMS: https://github.com/Kliqqi-CMS/Kliqqi-CMS/

 

question2answer: http://www.question2answer.org/

 

scoold: https://scoold.com/

 

talkyard: https://www.talkyard.io/

 

vanillaforums: https://vanillaforums.com/en/features/qna/

 

 

Question2Answer question2answer: http://www.question2answer.org/ - a free Open Source Q&A Engine in PHP...

 

 

whichsystem do you prefer - which one - !? 

 

look forward to a fruitful discussion 

 

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