Quora alternative

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#1

In Jürgen Hubert: "I have maintained for some time that we need a #F…" - Memento mori the wish to an alternative to the Q&A forum Quora was expressed:

The closest I remember is GitHub - Retrospring/retrospring: Q/A based social network which is looking for a maintainer (and archived since 1st September 2025).

This forum also mentions Quora in https://discuss.coding.social/t/guilds-services-relationships-network-wiki/398

Personally the closest I used personally to it was Stack Exchange.

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#2

Wouldn’t this be something like:

  • Make people mark their questions, i.e. by mentioning some tool
  • Provide an algorithm that allows people to browse questions, they could answer.

Implementing @ask is trivial. The algorithm would be something akin to labeling and then assign to person. This algorithm would be some form of Recommender system - Wikipedia

So all in all not too hard of a project to write. Maybe also something to write to https://www.prototypefund.de/ maybe an alternative to Making sure you're not a bot!

If people are interested please reply with what you would want to build.

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