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[OH-Dev] Alternatives to our web forum

Froilan Irizarry irizarry.froilan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 23:12:56 UTC 2014


I think Reddit has a better "conversation" flow/layout. It's open source
and built on Django.

In my opinion the only thing that Stack Exchange has over it is the merit
system.

There are a number of Stack Exchange clones that are open source. Don't
know how good they are though.
On Apr 20, 2014 9:42 PM, "Cindy" <cindy.pallaresq at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 04/20/2014 06:25 PM, Bob Silverberg wrote:
> > I did some more work on the IRC mission this weekend, specifically the
> irc
> > bot. I recall that Cindy was interested in helping with this and I could
> > definitely use the help, so if you're reading this Cindy, shoot me a note
> > and let's try to coordinate something.
> I most definitely am. I sent you an email, let me know if you're
> available during the office hours tomorrow.
>
> On 04/20/2014 08:12 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:
> > I'm quite the fan of the Stack Exchange meritocracies.
>
> I know stack exchage has a system to create new Q&A sites
> (https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq). It would be great to create a
> general open source that is catered to beginners. I didn't find one that
> is solely dedicated to open source/open source culture. I think it would
> also be great to introduce beginners to stack exchange, since that's
> what a lot of people use when they bump into problems with code or with
> software. I would prefer that to reddit since stack exchange has
> structure and rules on answering/asking questions.
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