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Scoold vs Stack Overflow: What are the differences?
What is Scoold? The self-hosted alternative to Stack Overflow. It is open source and works great as a Q&A, forum, knowledge base or customer support platform. Deployable on premises or to any cloud.
What is Stack Overflow? Question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.
Scoold and Stack Overflow can be primarily classified as "Question and Answer Sites" tools.
Some of the features offered by Scoold are:
- Full featured Q&A platform
- Database-agnostic, optimized for cloud deployment
- Full-text search
On the other hand, Stack Overflow provides the following key features:
- Ask questions, get answers, no distractions
- Get answers to practical, detailed questions
- Tags make it easy to find interesting questions
Pros of Scoold
Pros of Stack Overflow
- Scary smart community257
- Knows all206
- Voting system142
- Good questions134
- Good SEO83
- Addictive22
- Tight focus14
- Share and gain knowledge10
- Useful7
- Fast loading3
- Gamification2
- Knows everyone1
- Experts share experience and answer questions1
- Stack overflow to developers As google to net surfers1
- Questions answered quickly1
- No annoying ads1
- No spam1
- Fast community response1
- Good moderators1
- Quick answers from users1
- Good answers1
- User reputation ranking1
- Efficient answers1
- Leading developer community1
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Cons of Scoold
Cons of Stack Overflow
- Not welcoming to newbies3
- Unfair downvoting3
- Unfriendly moderators3
- No opinion based questions3
- Mean users3
- Limited to types of questions it can accept2