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Codidact as a whole offers a platform that is an alternative to Stack Exchange as a whole. Each of these platforms determines its topics (at least in principle) according to user demand and initiat...
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#2: Post edited
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Karl Knechtel
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2023-08-04T02:10:45Z (9 months ago)
Codidact as a whole offers a platform that is an alternative to Stack Exchange as a whole. Each of these platforms determines its topics ([at least in principle](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390463) according to user demand and initiative. There is no reason *a priori* to expect any kind of correspondence between SE sites and CD communities, and we are not in any way attempting to mirror or emulate Stack Exchange's organization. The scope of each community here is determined by the community, independently of what any other site on the Internet does. The [scope of software.CD](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic) is overall broader than Stack Overflow - at least for now. The reasons for closing questions may be informed, however, by the community's prior experiences with Stack Overflow.- Topanswers bills itself as an alternative to Stack Overflow specifically. However, since it is organized into sections with specific topic focus, and the platform [is open source](https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers/blob/master/LICENSE), *in principle* nothing prevents reusing that software to discuss topics outside of software, to emulate specific SE sites, or to form the base of another whole-SE alternative like Codidact.
- Codidact as a whole offers a platform that is an alternative to Stack Exchange as a whole. Each of these platforms determines its topics ([at least in principle](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390463)) according to user demand and initiative. There is no reason *a priori* to expect any kind of correspondence between SE sites and CD communities, and we are not in any way attempting to mirror or emulate Stack Exchange's organization. The scope of each community here is determined by the community, independently of what any other site on the Internet does. The [scope of software.CD](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic) is overall broader than Stack Overflow - at least for now. The reasons for closing questions may be informed, however, by the community's prior experiences with Stack Overflow.
- Topanswers bills itself as an alternative to Stack Overflow specifically. However, since it is organized into sections with specific topic focus, and the platform [is open source](https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers/blob/master/LICENSE), *in principle* nothing prevents reusing that software to discuss topics outside of software, to emulate specific SE sites, or to form the base of another whole-SE alternative like Codidact.
#1: Initial revision
by
Karl Knechtel
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2023-08-04T02:10:29Z (9 months ago)
Codidact as a whole offers a platform that is an alternative to Stack Exchange as a whole. Each of these platforms determines its topics ([at least in principle](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390463) according to user demand and initiative. There is no reason *a priori* to expect any kind of correspondence between SE sites and CD communities, and we are not in any way attempting to mirror or emulate Stack Exchange's organization. The scope of each community here is determined by the community, independently of what any other site on the Internet does. The [scope of software.CD](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic) is overall broader than Stack Overflow - at least for now. The reasons for closing questions may be informed, however, by the community's prior experiences with Stack Overflow. Topanswers bills itself as an alternative to Stack Overflow specifically. However, since it is organized into sections with specific topic focus, and the platform [is open source](https://github.com/topanswers/topanswers/blob/master/LICENSE), *in principle* nothing prevents reusing that software to discuss topics outside of software, to emulate specific SE sites, or to form the base of another whole-SE alternative like Codidact.