Open source Math exchange alternative
Open source Math exchange alternative
Mathematics on Codidact - open, community-run Q&A knowledge sharing
Recently noticed this open source math exchange-like site. The community is pretty slow (seems like there's lots of people interested in answering questions, but not so many posting them), which may make it a good target if you've got a good question that isn't getting the attention you'd like.
Curious if anybody knows other alternatives.
That looks like a dubious stack exchange fork, though I didn't examine it closely.
I think your point is that it's a rip-off stack exchange, which is correct. The difference is that the code is open (which means, for example, you can host your own). In the sense of fork as in github and code repositories, I think no. Stack exchange is closed source, so this was recoded from the ground up (see this SE question )
I had thought that stack exchange was originally open source and maybe still is. That is how math overflow was able to start. Either way though, the code is almost meaningless, as is the reddit code. Reddit has been reimplemented many times. The captive asset at reddit and stack exchange is the data and community (plus SE's crazy interpretation of the creative commons license where to republish stuff you have to SEO for them, even though they are not the author). It sounds like codidact may be repeating the same error/trick/whatever.
No I don't see codidact as a rip-off of SE since SE itself is a rip-off of its participants. The upsurge in Lemmy and outrage at Reddit is because Reddit just ramped up its rip-off intensity. SE did too, though less visibly.