# Building a plugin to add Stack Exchange features

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [July 24, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402 "2015-07-24T18:31:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402/2 "2015-07-25T07:37:30Z")

</div>

> [@BIBI](#):
>
> I am therefore looking for help scoping out the plugin and how it would allow us a more structure Q&A topics within discourse.

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?

[quote=“BIBI, post:1, topic:31402”]  
(…) 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…”

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-plugin-to-add-stack-exchange-features/31402)._