: Hosted version of Yahoo! answers Possible Duplicate: Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar to StackExchange? Does anyone know of a hosted version

@Kaufman445

I've installed Vanilla Script for my site : www.herkesuzman.com

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@Smith883

We were running Question2Answer for a bit, though we're currently working on an in house clone of it, since we have a few unusual needs and had to do a fair number of new features anyway.

However, our experience with it was positive for the most part - the developer is fairly active, and it was fairly problem free for running a small Q&A site.

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@Angela700

Well, you might still pick one of the open source solutions and keep upgrading your Q&A site as the software matures.

If you need more info about askbot - that's the one I am developing - just drop by at the site and ask or email admin@askbot.org.

With askbot upgrades are normally painless and the product is stable. There are more test cases than in any other similar product I know of, no known critical bugs and the development is steady.

Of course there are other open source solutions available and you know where to find them...

Also I want to add that I am gathering support team right now and I might be able to match your needs with the developers who can execute them and at the same time contribute to the main project.

edit: I want to defend open source solutions here. They give an advantage to the client - not to depend on a single entity for the availability of a service or a product. IT business is quite volatile - StackExchange 1.0 is one example. Secondly - I just do not believe that proprietary products of this class can be sustained at a higher level than the open source in the long run - because forums are relatively simple.

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