Open Source Alternatives to Stack Overflow

Scoold is an open-source platform designed to facilitate efficient knowledge sharing within teams or organizations. It functions as a Q&A forum, knowledge base, and customer support platform, inspired by Stack Overflow. Scoold can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, making it highly versatile for different organizational needs.

• Full-featured Q&A platform: Ask and answer questions, upvote and downvote posts, earn badges and reputation, and track edit history.
• Cloud-ready: Optimized for cloud deployment with easy setup options for private or public cloud infrastructures.
• Full-text search: Powerful search capabilities powered by Para and Elasticsearch for quick access to information.
• Geolocation filtering: Associate questions with specific locations and filter them accordingly.
• Reputation and badges: Simple reputation system with badges to reward user contributions.
• Lightweight frontend: Uses jQuery for a simple and effective frontend experience.
• Similar posts suggestions: Automatically suggests similar posts when asking a new question.
• LDAP authentication: Supports LDAP and Active Directory for seamless enterprise integration.
• Email notifications: Subscribe to threads and receive email updates for new answers or replies.
• Responsive design: Modern layout powered by Materialize CSS, ensuring a responsive and visually appealing interface.
• Social login & 2FA: Supports social logins and two-factor authentication for enhanced security.
• SEO-friendly: Server-rendered pages for better search engine indexing.
• Internationalization: Easily translatable with support for right-to-left languages.
• Spaces (Teams): Organize users and questions into isolated groups for better management.
• Syntax highlighting: Supports syntax highlighting for code snippets, GitHub flavored Markdown, and more.
• Webhooks: Create webhooks for external services to handle events in Para.
• Backup & Restore: Easily export and import data for backup and migration purposes.
• RESTful API: Fully-fledged RESTful JSON API for programmatic access.
• Themes & dark mode: Customize the look and feel of your site with different themes and a dark mode.
• SSL and mTLS support: Secure connections with HTTPS and mutual authentication.
• Import from Stack Overflow: Seamless migration from Stack Overflow for Teams.
• Zapier integration: Integrate with thousands of other applications via Zapier.
• Akismet integration: Automatic anti-spam protection with Akismet.

Scoold is a comprehensive solution for team knowledge sharing, offering a wide range of features to meet the needs of various organizations.