Answer
Run a Stack Overflow of your own: Apache Answer brings the question-and-answer format
in-house, maintained under the Apache Software Foundation with an Apache-2.0 license. You use
it to run a community forum, product help center, or internal knowledge base where content
lives as questions and answers rather than wiki pages. It ships the mechanics that make that
format work: voting, accepted answers, a reputation system with privilege levels, tagging,
full-text search with filters, revision history on every edit, and admin/moderator/user roles.
Content is written in Markdown with real-time preview and code syntax highlighting. A plugin
system covers OAuth login (Google, GitHub), S3 storage, external search backends like Algolia,
and Akismet anti-spam, and a REST API exposes platform data for integration. The backend is
Go, the frontend React, and it runs against SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Self-hosting
replaces per-seat tools like Stack Overflow for Teams with a flat-cost instance where you own
all the content.
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