Thoughts on a plugin which turns discourse into stackoverflow

[dcohen (David Cohen)]

I know I know discourse is not a Q&A platform, and you might not believe in negative votes, etc, as mentioned in other posts. This is not a question about the philosophy, it is a technical question, so please proceed with technical answers.

I think a forum platform like discourse, and a Q&A platform like SO have a lot in common. On the other hand, despite many tries, a polished, high quality, open source clone of SO with a large community and high momentum like discourse does not yet exist. So I was wondering how easy, or difficult, would it be to create a plugin that would convert discourse into stackoverflow?

Would this imaginary plugin be something ‘hacky’ that only would work as a prototype, or would be reliable enough for production?

[hugo_lpz]

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 – vote ont the topic popularity
• Discourse-qa - Discourse Question Answer Plugin – vote on answers and sort them according to popularity
• Discourse Solved (Accepted answer plugin) – green checkmark for author’s recommended answer
• Babble Chat – chat
• Convert all existing topics in category to wikis

Non existing:

• How to get answer’s comments? (stackoverflow-like & tiny)
• How to have all post (answers) as wiki by default?
• Stackoverflow gamification vs Ethics of reputation: Proposal and Critique

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[angus (Angus McLeod)]

You may also be interested in the Question Answer plugin.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@hugo_lpz

Note: my list is an editable wiki post, feel free to edit it as needed.

It’s not a wiki yet, but you could ask @zogstrip to make it a wiki.

[Fabrizio_Bertoglio]

Hello,
I am not a very expert Ruby on Rails Developer. I finished my last project Bartering Apps and my next one will be a like StackOverflow discussion forum, because I am very interested in how developers find solutions to problems. Once that I implemented the current state of the art Discourse Forum plus Plugins, I could try to develop the following points:

1. How to get answer’s comments? (stackoverflow-like & tiny)

2. Downvotes…

3. How to have all post (answers) as wiki by default? (maybe)

My only hope is that I get through it

Wish me luck, I hope I am not posting something inappropriate for this discussion…
I would need some help and directions, I start one reading some discourse material and maybe cloning the github project.

Thanks
Fabrizio

[bdutta (Banibrata Dutta)]

Merci pour cette liste. Serait-il juste de supposer que les « Plugins existants » listés continuent d’être stables et fonctionnent bien dans les dernières versions de Discourse ? Les plugins ont-ils une notion standard de « qualité » par rapport aux versions de Discourse ?

De plus, au cours des 5 dernières années, de nouveaux plugins ont-ils été ajoutés qui pourraient aider à rapprocher encore plus Discourse de SO en termes d’expérience utilisateur et d’apparence ?

Ensuite, y a-t-il un moyen de changer le bouton « + Nouveau sujet » pour dire « + Poser une nouvelle question » ?

Et est-ce un comportement par défaut de Discourse (prêt à l’emploi) de faire une recherche intelligente basée sur le texte partiel ou complet de la question entrée pour voir si une question similaire existe déjà ou non, et de vérifier avec l’auteur si ces questions répondent déjà à leur question ?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Nous avons une solution officielle pour cela !

Discourse Post Voting est un plugin open source qui fournit un format Q&R à Discourse.

Nous sommes actuellement en phase de bêta-test.