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- GitHub integration13
- Free for public repos7
- Automated Builds2
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- 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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- Not welcoming to newbies3
- Unfair downvoting3
- Unfriendly moderators3
- No opinion based questions3
- Mean users3
- Limited to types of questions it can accept2
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What is Read the Docs?
It hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar.
What is Stack Overflow?
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.
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What are some alternatives to Read the Docs and Stack Overflow?
Gitbook
It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.
Confluence
Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
Sphinx
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
MkDocs
It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.
GitHub Pages
Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.