Apache Answer is a self-hosted Q&A platform for building community forums, help centres and knowledge management sites.
It gives teams and communities a structured place to ask questions, publish answers, add comments, vote on content, and organise shared knowledge with tags. The project is written mainly in Go and TypeScript, and can be extended with plugins for authentication, search, storage, notifications, spam protection and editor enhancements.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Question and answer workflow with comments, voting, accepted answers and community participation.
- Tagging system to categorise content and make relevant information easier to find.
- Reputation and badge features to encourage useful contributions and sustained engagement.
- Plugin system supporting integrations such as OAuth2, Google login, Slack notifications, Redis, S3 storage, Elasticsearch, MeiliSearch, CAPTCHA and anti-spam services.
- Docker deployment option together with source builds using Go, Node.js and pnpm.
Website: github.com/apache/answer
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Developer: Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache License 2.0
Apache Answer is written in Go and TypeScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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