Shauna,

Thank you for letting us know about the update, I am agree with AnswerHub 
because I proposed that option last time, Can't wait for that.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 10:39:29 PM UTC+7, Shauna Gordon-McKeon 
wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thank you all for your feedback on potential new tools for supporting the 
> open source community.  It’s been helpful to hear your suggestions for 
> tools and your thoughts on what features are important, which we 
> incorporated into our list of requirements 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0P2hNXH7hdyxbqi8OCndNrUoxrOXDAbvIGalG6v7qU/>.
>  
>   
>
> I’ve spent the last couple of weeks going through a number of potential 
> options, including AskBot, AnswerHub, Confluence Questions, StackOverflow, 
> Vanilla Forums, Zendesk Community, VBulletin, Lithium and Jive.  I’ve 
> written up summaries of these options in this document 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rgH4g2NB7ID-SoowzrefaQSzerEaes3VQMtZ1XGwXs0/edit#>
>  
> if you’d like to see the detailed results of our evaluation process.
>
> The short version is: we’re leaning towards AnswerHub.  Although we’d love 
> to have gone with one of the open source options, AnswerHub is the only one 
> we’ve found that fits all of our main requirements.  Perhaps the strongest 
> reason we prefer it to other promising options like AskBot and Vanilla 
> Forums is the increased support for analytics.  One of our main goals with 
> the new tool is to make it easier for our engineering and docs teams to 
> understand what issues are causing the most problems and to address them.  
> We also want the community as a whole to be able to prioritize answering 
> the most pressing questions.  Finding tools that let us ask, “What are the 
> most upvoted/commented upon unanswered questions?” was surprisingly 
> difficult to find, but AnswerHub let us do that and more.
>
> There was a lot of enthusiasm on list for StackOverflow.  As you can see 
> on my summary doc, the main reason we didn’t go with them was a lack of 
> control over content moderation.  AnswerHub is very StackOverflow-like, so 
> we hope that the community will see it as a good alternative.
>
> Our plan is to go ahead with AnswerHub next week, but we want to give the 
> community a chance to raise any potential issues we might have overlooked 
> or to point out any options we might have missed.  If you’ve got any of 
> those in mind, now’s the time to bring them up!  :)
>
> Best
> Shauna
>

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