Stackoverflow forum software

Question

Is the forum software used here available for download? I think this would help others to start online discussions to help people on other topics.

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure stackoverflow isn't open source.. But I do recall someone mentioning "Stacked" as an open source implementation of an SO like site. Don't know how complete it is..

Answer 2

Certain parts of the software already are open source. jQuery, for example, or the rich-text editor (markdown) used everywhere are both readily available.

As for the rest, IIRC the founders talked about open sourcing the software at some point in a podcast or blog post or something, but the result was that it's definitely not on the table at moment.

Maybe after it's matured some, but as I see it the general problem is that open sourcing software creates a maintenance burden for managing patches and forks that they were not yet prepared to handle.

Oh, and StackOverflow isn't a "forum" in the traditional sense.