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Q&A Is the Codidact community the same as Stack Overflow?

Summary: It's different, but maybe not that different and whether it's better or worse - only the future will be able to tell. For information about Codidact see the help center and the Codidact b...

posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Trilarion‭ · 2022-04-14T09:29:39Z (over 2 years ago)
**Summary**: It's different, but maybe not that different and whether it's better or worse - only the future will be able to tell.

For information about Codidact see the [help center](https://meta.codidact.com/help) and the [Codidact blog category](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/30).

The differences are mostly in the organizational structure (open source software, a charitable foundation running the hard/software, no advertisement instead donations) and maybe also in the expressed purpose (community centered).

However, the similarities are striking too in the general organization of content with questions, answers, votes, comments, tags as well as the focus on high quality content.

You did not yet mention what kind of hostility of the Stack Overflow community exactly drove you away from there or what you specifically hope to obtain here with a "better community", so I cannot currently comment on that.

I can only say that Stack Overflow is doing a lot of things right, otherwise they would not be that popular, but there is still room for improvement and I hope Codidact will be that, an improved Stack Overflow. But I also acknowledge that we all build Codidact together, so the outcome will be a collaborative effort.