Scoold vs Talkyard
Two open-source Q&A platforms compared. TL;DR: Talkyard is a hybrid community platform combining features from multiple products - Reddit, Stack Overflow, Discourse. Scoold is focused on the Q&A style format and provides extra features targeting small to medium sized enterprises and teams.
Scoold and Talkyard are both open-source Q&A platforms aimed at internal knowledge sharing, but they emphasize slightly different workflows. Scoold is a lightweight Stack Overflow-style Q&A system, available under Apache 2.0 with optional paid "Pro" licenses. It can be self-hosted or deployed on Scoold Cloud.
Talkyard is an AGPLv3-licensed discussion platform that blends Q&A with threaded forum discussions and idea voting. It can be self-hosted or used via Talkyard's hosted service. Talkyard is great for threaded discussions similar to Reddit, Discourse, and it supports comment embedding.
Scoold offers a great Q&A alternative with features like reputation, custom badges and spaces, whereas Talkyard focuses on forum threads and ideation features.
| Feature | Scoold | Scoold Pro | Talkyard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | from €499, one-time | Free |
| License | Apache 2.0 | EULA | AGPL v3 |
| Data ownership | | | |
| On-premises | | | |
| Cloud hosting | | | |
| LDAP SSO | | | |
| SAML SSO | | | |
| SCIM provisioning | | | |
| Accepted answers | | | |
| Reputation & Badges | | | |
| Spaces (private groups) | | | |
| RESTful API | | | |
| MCP Server | | | |
| Akismet anti-spam | | | |
| Kubernetes & Docker | | | |
| Language / stack | Java | Java | Scala |
| Initial commit | Jul 6, 2011 | Sep 13, 2018 | Jan 8, 2015 |
| Open GitHub issues | ~8 | ~9 | ~0 |
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