Scoold

Scoold is a Q&A and a knowledge sharing platform for teams. The project was created back in 2008, released in 2012 as social network for schools inspired by Stack Overflow. In 2017 it was refactored, repackaged and open-sourced.

Scoold can run anywhere - Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure or any VPS hosting provider. It's lightweight (~7000 LOC), the backend is handled by a separate service called Para. All the heavy lifting is delegated to Para which can also be configured to store the data in any of the popular databases. This makes the Scoold code base easy to read and can be learned quickly, even by junior developers.

Scoold Pro, the paid version of Scoold, has premium features which make it the perfect knowledge sharing platform for your company or team.

This project is fully funded and supported by Erudika - an independent, bootstrapped company.

Features

• Full featured Q&A platform
• Database-agnostic, optimized for cloud deployment
• Full-text search
• Distributed object cache
• Location-based search and "near me" filtering of posts
• I18n with RTL language support
• Reputation and voting system with badges
• Custom badges - add your own text, icon and color
• Spaces (Teams) - groups of isolated questions and users
• Webhooks with signature signing
• Zapier integration
• Minimal frontend JS code based on jQuery
• Modern, responsive layout powered by Materialize CSS
• Suggestions for similar questions and hints for duplicate posts
• Email notifications for post replies and comments
• Backup and Restore
• RESTful API defined with OpenAPI 3.0
• Spring Boot project (single JAR)
• Mutual authentication support (mTLS)
• LDAP authentication support
• Social login (Facebook, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Slack, Amazon, Twitter) with Gravatar support
• Syntax highlighting for code in posts, GFM markdown support with tables, task lists and strikethrough
• Import data from Stack Overflow for Teams
• Emojis! - using this cheat sheet or inline Unicode
• Support for uploading custom avatars (to Imgur, Cloudinary)
• SEO friendly
• Cookie consent (for GDPR, CCPA, etc.)

Buy Scoold Pro and also get these premium features:

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