I currently run both a forum and Q&A website (stack exchange clone). Both our forum and Q&A have questions on that are answers by a team of moderators. We considering rebuilding and consolidating the software we use, so i am looking into Discourse as a possible alternative, given its strong credentials.
I have read the existing topics on comparison between SE and discourse so appreciate that discourse is different and that its not trying to be a SE clone. See below.
I am therefore looking for help scoping out the plugin and how it would allow us a more structure Q&A topics within discourse. Suggestions please!
Here’s my top features to start with:-
Topic types or new post type/category, so discussion is distinguished from a Q&A.
Allow users/admin to sort replies by votes.
Control how/when users can reply to certain topics or questions (e.g. question topics can only be answer by users with x trust points (or some other algorithm)
Here are the previous topics on this subject if you haven’t already read them:
After you’ve scoped out the plugin, will you be developing it yourselves, or will you attempt to hire a developer to do it for you?
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(…) so appreciate that discourse is different and that its try to be a SE clone.
[/quote]I’d like to suggest a spelling correction to avoid confusion:
“so I can appreciate that Discourse is different and that it doesn’t try to be a SE clone.”
You also have a duplicate link in your topic: 2x “What are Discourse’s main competitors…”