# Thoughts on a plugin which turns discourse into stackoverflow

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763 "2014-10-04T16:40:55Z")
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### Author: ![hugo\_lpz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hugo_lpz/32/120290_2.png) [@hugo\_lpz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hugo_lpz)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763/2 "2017-01-31T19:18:47Z")

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This must be broken in sub-tasks and as many plugins. You can edit this list as needed since it’s now an editable wiki 😉

**Existing plugins :**.

- [Discourse Feature Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-feature-voting/40121) – vote ont the topic popularity
- [Discourse-qa - Discourse Question Answer Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032) – vote on answers and sort them according to popularity
- [Discourse Solved (Accepted answer plugin)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved-accepted-answer-plugin/30155) – green checkmark for author’s recommended answer
- [Babble Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/31753) – chat
- [Convert all existing topics in category to wikis](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-all-existing-topics-in-category-to-wikis/54493)

**Non existing:**

- [How to get answer’s comments? (stackoverflow-like & tiny)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-replies-to-an-answer-how-to-get-nested-comments-stackoverflow-like/56660)
- [How to have all post (answers) as wiki by default?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-have-all-post-answers-as-wiki-by-default/56670)
- [Stackoverflow gamification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stackoverflow-gamification/54546) vs [Ethics of reputation: Proposal and Critique](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reputation-spec-proposal-and-critique/29696)

Note1 : please turn your question into a wiki so we can collaboratively assess this issue’s progress.  
Note2 : As of Fall 2018, Stackoverflow opens a team service [https://stackoverflow.com/pricing](https://stackoverflow.com/pricing)

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