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:
Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can post questions, answer questions, and comment on answers that have been submitted by other users. As of 2020, the website was visited by 300 million users a month.
Quora was co-founded by former Facebook employees Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever in June 2009. In an answer to ...
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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helge
October 22, 2025, 7:55am
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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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helge
December 9, 2025, 3:39pm
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