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Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

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What is the relationship between Codidact and TopAnswers?

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(Apologies if this is a dupe. I couldn't find a way to search Meta questions.) I joined Codidact after hearing about it on Programming Puzzles & Code Golf (PPCG) Stack Exchange a few years ago, and being a supporter of open-source, community-driven software, particularly during the recent dilemma on Stack Overflow about AI-generated answers.

I first assumed Codidact to TopAnswers is analogous to Stack Exchange to Stack Overflow, i.e. run by the same company, but it seems to me now that Codidact is completely distinct from TopAnswers in codebase (https://github.com/codidact/qpixel vs https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers) and management. Thus software.codidact.com and topanswers.xyz both serve as distinct Stack Overflow alternatives, with TopAnswers being older and less active. Is this correct?

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We also share a lot of goals (and some contributors) with a similar project, TopAnswers. You may also want to consider participating in the communities they have there:

followed by nothing (I think uBlock Origin accidentally hid it).

From the name, I also thought Software Development Codidact was more akin to Software Engineering Stack Exchange than Stack Overflow. This distinction is still a little hazy to me.

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Karl Knechtel‭ wrote 9 months ago
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Individual Codidact communities, along with their names, have no relationship or necessary equivalency with anything on Stack Exchange. Stack Overflow has a "special" name - where most SE sites are just Something (dot) Stack Exchange - because it came first. The initial community was created by and for programmers, and it shows: Stack Overflow is something like 15 times the size of any other community on that network.

Interestingly, the runner-up is math.SE (created later following the later-established Stack Exchange formula), which is in turn much larger than mathoverflow.net (one of the initial few sites created as an experiment when SO itself proved popular).

Anyway, on Codidact there are no such assumptions; every site concept is equal a priori and is named following the same convention. The intended scope of software.codidact.com is explained in its own help section.