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Codidact

Community-driven Q&A knowledge-sharing platform

Forums & Community ★ 444 stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Codidact is an open-source question-and-answer platform built as a community-run alternative to Stack Exchange. It supports multiple categories, voting, and knowledge curation.

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Key features

  • Stack Exchange-style Q&A
  • Reputation and voting system
  • Multiple community categories
  • Markdown-based posts

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in Ruby

Trade-offs

  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Q&A focused

Is Codidact secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Codidact's latest release (v0.13.0). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-22138, published 2025-01-13 (639 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Codidact replaces

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