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Latest release is from 2015: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/tags.
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ASKBOT / askbot-devel
askbot-devel
Askbot is a Django/Python Q&A forum. **Contributors README**: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel#how-to-contribute. Commercial hosting of Askbot and support are available at https://askbot.com
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Askbot is a Django/Python Q&A forum. **Contributors README**: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel#how-to-contribute. Commercial hosting of Askbot and support are available at https://askbot.com
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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9 sourcesThere's this open-source SO-esque Q&A forum: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel
In Ask HN: What if Stack Overflow suddenly decides to shut down?One way to handle these kinds of contentious moderator debates is with freedom. Since Stackoverflow/Stackexchange does not open source their code, there are a number of Free Software clones which handle questions and answers Stackexchange style.
I will link to just one: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel
Point being, there is nothing stopping someone from hosting this code and making their own Q&A board with their own moderation policies.
In An Update to Our Community and an ApologyHad a team running on Askbot [1] for a few years, but nowadays we've been running on Questions for Confluence. I feel like most Atlassian shops will probably default to that route.
[1] https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel
In StackOverflow for private teams in betaIt's a useful product. I'm actually surprised that the state of Stack Overflow clones isn't better. Although much of the value of SO comes from its knowledge base, the UI and organization and administration is nice to have pre-built. When I was looking around the top choices among open source/free were askbot (https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel) and osqa (https://github.com/dzone/osqa). There was also a plug-in for Confluence (Questions) and Answerhub (seemed to be the pro/paid version of OSQA). But none of them were as nice as stack overflow, which was surprising to me.
In StackOverflow for private teams in betahttps://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel askbot creators believe that if someone does not know to google askbot source code he shouldnt get the code :)
In Show HN: Open-source StackOverflow-like serviceAsk HN: Resources for Adding Game-Like Elements
I'm starting work on a project where I'm going to need to incorporate some game-like elements to help users motivated to both interact with the application/community as well as motivate themselves.
I know this has been a popular topic over the last year or two, and a ton has been written, but I have no idea what's good or bad since I've never incorporated those sorts of elements into something I was working on.
I don't necessarily want thinks labeled as gamification, since that is pretty new and a lot of the techniques have been around much longer.
I'd really appreciate any links to articles, books, sites, HN threads, or software (esp. written in python!) that you think would be helpful.
To start things off, I've been looking at (but can't vouch for):
- AskBot, a StackExchange clone ( https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel )
- Badgeville.
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seems like they know what they're doing, but I was a bit sketched out by having to give them contact info to find out more than superficial details. ( http://www.badgeville.com/ )
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About -- This is interesting, although I may have privacy concerns which would keep me from integrating it.
- FourSquare -- I just signed up since I hadn't been using it, and it seems to be the poster child for making things into a game
Again, any help would be appreciated!
Congrats, man! Have you worked on this for a while and then open sourced? Looks like a lot of code for just a few commits. We work on askbot, here is the repo https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel, but our project is in Python/Django. Cheers.
Evgeny.
In StackOverflow for your IntranetAskbot: open source Q&A forum in Python and Django
Hola,
check out askbot - it's a Q&A forum like StackOverflow, but it's open source (python/django). Askbot supports PostgresQL and MySQL database backends and can be installed either from pypi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/askbot) or github (http://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel).
Demo and the meta site is http://askbot.org
Installation is quite simplified (has setup.py with dependencies).
Has some fun features - like ajax search and drill-down tag filtering.
Will be happy to hear your feedback.
Thanks.
Evgeny.
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