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Shapado

Open-source question and answer community software

Forums & Community ★ 527 stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Shapado is an open-source Q&A software written in Ruby that allows hosting multiple question-and-answer communities. It supports tags, voting, and badges in a StackOverflow-like format.

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Key features

  • Multi-community Q&A hosting
  • Voting and reputation
  • Tag-based browsing
  • Badges and gamification

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • Written in Ruby
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • Project is dormant
  • Outdated Ruby stack

Shapado replaces

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