{"id":107,"date":"2011-05-19T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.okjoyel.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2011-06-15T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T04:16:58","slug":"stack-overflow-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zhangxinjun.cn\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow clones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most active that look like the best bets<\/strong><\/p>\n

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shapado<\/a><\/strong> Ruby, mongomapper and mongodb. Live site<\/a>, also provide hosted sites for free. AGPLv3. Seems to be under active development as of June 2010.<\/li>\n
OSQA<\/a><\/strong> . Django. Live site<\/a>. GPLv3. More actively developed fork of CNPROG.<\/li>\n
ASKBOT<\/a><\/strong> Django code<\/a>, docs<\/a>, import data<\/a>. GPLv3. To install type “pip install askbot”.<\/li>\n
Question2Answer<\/a><\/strong>. Live site<\/a> PHP, MySQL. Actively developed. GPL license<\/a>.<\/li>\n
CNPROG<\/a><\/strong>. Django. Live site<\/a>(Update 21\/01\/2011:<\/strong> link leads to a page which says CNPROG is officially closed<\/em>). GPLv3. Not a lot of recent activity; last code commit, Oct 2009 (as of Feb 2010). Primarily developed in Chinese, although there are English translations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Ones that look sort of finished<\/strong><\/p>\n
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openoverflow<\/a><\/strong>. Ruby, PostgreSQL, Haml. MIT license. No example site, and I can’t find anyone using this one. Not a lot of recent activity; last code commit, May 2009 (as of Feb 2010).<\/li>\n
phpancake<\/a><\/strong>. PHP, Zend framework, MySQL. Live site<\/a>. MIT license. Last activity Jan 2010. Renders very poorly in some browsers.<\/li>\n
cahoots<\/a><\/strong>. PHP, MySQL. GPL, MIT license. Officially inactive; demo site offline; last update Aug 2010.<\/li>\n
Qwench<\/a><\/strong> PHP. Example site<\/a> (no pages except question list). No activity since Dec 2009.<\/li>\n
soclone<\/a><\/strong>. Django framework. MIT license. Seems to have gone stale in Nov 2008 (and only started on Google Code at the end of Oct 2008).<\/li>\n
Plurk Solace<\/a><\/strong>. Python. BSD license. No example site, and I can’t find anyone using this one.<\/li>\n
stacked<\/a><\/strong> ASP.NET, Ra-Ajax, ActiveRecord ORM. GPLv3. Live site<\/a>. Seems to have gone stale in Jun 2009. Some legal issues<\/a>, but they seem to be over now.<\/li>\n
Qanda<\/a><\/strong> PHP, MySQL, MIT. Repository<\/a>. Site inaccessible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Others that seem to be work in progress<\/strong><\/p>\n
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FortyTwo<\/a><\/strong>. Python, Django, CouchDB. Example site<\/a>. Unknown license. Little info.<\/li>\n
kerjakelompok<\/a><\/strong>. No example site. Unknown license. Little info.<\/li>\n
SmartR<\/a><\/strong>. No example site. Unknown license. Little info.<\/li>\n
Stack Underflow<\/a><\/strong>. C#. No example site. License is “do whatever you want with it” (I haven’t defined a formal license yet). Written as a learning project.<\/li>\n
T002_rails-overflow<\/a><\/strong>. Rails. No example site. Unknown license. Little info. Apache license.<\/li>\n
LampCMS<\/a><\/strong> PHP 5.3, MongoDB LGPL 3 License<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Sorted by language<\/h2>\n
PHP<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Question2Answer<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
cahoots<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
phpancake<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
LampCMS<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Python<\/strong><\/p>\n
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ASKBOT<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
CNPROG<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
OSQA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
soclone<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
Plurk Solace<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
FortyTwo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Ruby<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Shapado<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
openoverflow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
T002_rails-overflow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ASP.NET<\/strong><\/p>\n
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stacked<\/a><\/strong> ASP.NET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
C#<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Stack Underflow<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n
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kerjakelompok<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
SmartR<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Did I miss any? Disagree? Please add a comment or update this answer.<\/em><\/p>\n
And I don’t really want to get into listing clones, but I have just come across Answer Bag<\/a> which seems to be an all-encompassing clone covering everything from aviation<\/a> through programming<\/a> to religion<\/a>. Or maybe that was there first? And Just Answer<\/a> is another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Sorted by language<\/h2>\nPHP<\/strong><\/p>\n