[HN Gopher] Codidact - A community-run, open-source Q&A platform
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Codidact - A community-run, open-source Q&A platform
Author : leonry
Score : 44 points
Date : 2021-11-02 10:08 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.codidact.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.codidact.com)
| jaredcwhite wrote:
| This looks pretty awesome. Cool to see a new open source Ruby-
| based platform enter the scene (along with Forem, Discourse,
| Mastodon, and so many others).
|
| It'll be interesting to see how their open proposal process for
| creating new communities in the main network scales over time. I
| like the fact many of the initial communities here aren't just in
| the super-nerd tech territory.
| denysvitali wrote:
| Discourse (although written in Ruby), is very good at Q&As IMHO
| asiachick wrote:
| I absolutely detest Discourse
|
| (1) It's super bloated. It requires a 10x the resources of an
| old school PHP forum. I'm not saying an old school PHP forum is
| better. Only that gees! Why do I need to pay 1GIG dedicated
| machine when a shared PHP host was working for ~15yrs
|
| (2) All the damn gamification that's so effing annoying. I've
| got enough notifications in my life. I don't need "You posted
| your first message", "You posted your first reply", "You edited
| your first message". The only notifications I want are those
| that are actually useful for me "You got a reply"
|
| (3) Poor design for engagement. I have no data on this but I've
| never seen a discourse forum be as active as older non-
| discourse forums. Something about the way it's designed IMO
| discourages long lived lively topics. Where is the NeoGAF of
| discourse? Where is the Tigsource of discourse?
| alexknowshtml wrote:
| I've seen way too many forums die in the switch from an old
| school forum to Discourse. Makes me sad.
| posterboy wrote:
| I've seen the language section of this platform before and I'm
| under no illusion that their etymology section would be more
| welcoming than other prominent ones about speculation like, for
| example, is _codidact_ a pun on _addict_?
|
| Although this could be a useful usecase for me personally, I do
| in any other event not see what value they are trying to add over
| the big SE
| BenjiWiebe wrote:
| If you are familiar with the rather uncommon word didact (I
| am), then co-didact is a meaningful and clever name for the
| site.
| b3morales wrote:
| > I do in any other event not see what value they are trying to
| add over the big SE
|
| They started as a breakaway group; the project was created as a
| result of severe user dissatisfaction with some of Stack
| Exchange's actions.
|
| The FAQ also has this entry:
|
| > We differ from Stack Exchange in several core ways, of which
| perhaps the most significant is that Stack Exchange is a for-
| profit company while Codidact is currently run by volunteers
| and incorporated as a UK Community Interest Company (CIC). This
| means that instead of focusing on profit, we can focus entirely
| on the needs of our communities. You can read more in [The
| Codidact Vision][0].
|
| [0]:https://meta.codidact.com/articles/276296
| galaxyLogic wrote:
| There is value in non-profit for the users. Think of Facebook
| and how their business-model benefits from getting users
| engaged by getting enraged, to keep them reading more
| "shocking stuff".
|
| SE is a for-profit company and no doubt that is a reason
| behind their gamified approach of making users more or less
| compete on who gets the most points, which can lead to an
| adversarial atmosphere. A non-profit's main priority will be
| getting users to collaborate, not compete.
| programmarchy wrote:
| Probably a pun on autodidact. I first read it as "co did act",
| but once I saw the tag line it clicked.
|
| Regarding SE, if you mean StackExchange, Codidact is open
| source, so you can host your own.
| danielvaughn wrote:
| I take codidact as a portmanteau of "collaborative" and
| "didactic".
| BenjiWiebe wrote:
| I was thinking the co was like coworkers.
| leonry wrote:
| Another service/community is referred on the main site. It is
| called TopAnswers (https://topanswers.xyz/).
| ParadisoShlee wrote:
| That name tho.
| cinntaile wrote:
| Hahaha, this is great. Imagine you have this idea, you execute on
| it and you come up with a clever name. Only some of your audience
| has never heard of the word didact and thinks it's a pun on
| addict. From codeine addict I guess? In reality it's quite a
| fitting name, it means to learn together.
| tbonesteaks wrote:
| this looks very similar to
| question2answers(https://www.question2answer.org/), but with a
| more updated UI. q2a has a lot of features and has been around
| for a long time, and since it is PHP it is simple to setup.
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