Is Discourse suitable for use for a question and answer type page?

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The discussion revolves around whether Discourse is suitable for a question and answer type page. The original poster, leisuretronics, is considering using Discourse for a Q&A section of their website and is looking for examples. MaSe thinks Discourse can be used for Q&A with the help of plugins, suggesting features such as sorting by voting and limiting replies. Pugwash notes that while Discourse wasn’t originally designed for QA, it can still be used for this purpose, especially with plugins. lightyear shares a plugin they built for sorting by voting, but it requires significant patches to the Discourse Archetype System. harunxxl expresses interest in lightyear’s plugin and offers to pay for installation services. Overall, the consensus is that Discourse can be used for Q&A, but may require additional plugins and customization.

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I’m looking for a platform that I can use to power a Q&A section of a website. I’m already planning on using Discourse for comments throughout the site but I’ve also read on Quora (http://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-open-source-question-and-answer-web-platform-like-Stack-Overflow) that Discourse can also be used to run a Q&A section. However I haven’t been able to find any examples. Is this correct or am I mistaken? Here’s the quote:

With the functionality like Voting and advanced tagging, it can be used as question-and-answers platform. Every feature that Stack Overflow introduced is available with Discourse to run a Question & Answers site.

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As Discourse is a rainbow system it is suitable for Q&A too. However it will need some plugin (I do not know if there is any) to work good for this purpose, at least it is needed to have

  • sorting by voting
  • limiting of replies in single thread by one author
  • subscription to new topics not posts
  • extended categories or tags filtering
  • something else.
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I don’t think Discourse originally set out to be a QA forum, more of a place for free-flowing discussion. Not sure if there are plugins out there that can repurpose the interface for QA but the key thing you’d need is the ability to up/down vote.

I’ve used Discourse for almost a year now in a loose QA context, software support to be precise, works great :smile:

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I have build a plugin for that previously. It does, however, require some significant patches to the Discourse Archetype System to work. So it isn’t an easy-as-pie-install at the moment. And aside from the first it misses the other features. But yes, Discourse can definitely be made to work that way.

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Dear @lightyear thank you very much ! Do you make any installation service for money ? I would be your first customer ! :slight_smile:

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