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I think most people learning of Askbot - at least at the moment - are familiar with the StackOverflow trilogy of sites and its features. And - at least at the moment - many people's question will be "which part of the SO Trilogy's functionality does Askbot cover"? 
 
It would be great to have a detailed comparison chart of what features are available in Askbot and which are not.
 
Does anybody know whether such a thing exists already outside Askbot? I could imagine somebody has done something like this already but I haven't seen one on neither meta.stackoverflow.com nor meta.stackexchange.com. Otherwise, I'll start a list covering what I can see.
 
 
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  1. Deployment:
     
       
    1. Basic set-up in minutes.
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    2. Databases: tested in MySQL, PostgresQL >=8.3
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    3. Django versions: 1.1.1 - 1.2.3 (for 1.2 need to change dependency Coffin-0.3 -> Coffin-0.3.3 (this will be automated soon)
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    4. Askbot will work with other django apps (but please back up database before adding askbot to your site)
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  2. Admin interface
     
       
    1. change configuration settings through the web - yes 
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    2. upload logo - yes 
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  3. Reputation
     
       
    1. Reputation system similar to SO - yes
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    2. Possibility to mark questions and answers community Wiki - yes 
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    3. Daily reputation cap - yes
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    4. Graphical reputation statistics - yes 
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  4. Editing
     
       
    1. Full featured Markdown editor - yes
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    2. Live preview while editing - yes
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    3. In-place retag. - yes
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    4. Ability to edit other users' questions - yes
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    5. Revision history - yes
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    6. Graphical diff (highlighting of differences between revisions) - yes
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  5. Tags
     
       
    1. Basic tagging functionality - yes
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    2. Ability to create tags - yes
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    3. Extended tag stats (Rankings, questions, answers) - no
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    4. Tag badges (Badges for users with x number of upvotes in certain tags) - no
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  6. Communication with users
     
       
    1. Inbox with the "envelope" in the header - yes
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    2. Instant or delayed (batch) email alerts  - yes
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  7. Error handling
     
       
    1. Graceful handling of Ajax errors when actions like upvoting or commenting time out? No 
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  8. Voting
     
       
    1. A vote cast can not be retracted anymore after a certain amount of time - yes
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        Hey, thanks for helping out. I'm sure we'll add more "yes" items to this list in the near future. 
      
 
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 @Evgeny great stuff, looking forward to it! I'm looking to set up and customize an Askbot site and learn Python as I go along. 
      
 
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 @Pekka, regarding Ajax errors - could you explain what exactly is the issue? Pls, feel free to ask any questions too.
      
 
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 @Evgeny when an Ajax request fails (e.g. because of an unstable WLAN connection), an alert shows up "Callback invoke error: error" this is hard to understand for non-programmers. In SO, a tooltip appears, e.g. "something went wrong. Please vote again". This would be nice to have in the long run.
      
 
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 @Evgeny do you think this could be a basis for a "official" comparison chart in the Wiki?
      
 
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So I see this stands updated at Nov'10. It would be nice to see another update now with the current list of great features. Thank you.
 
 
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Here is our changelog in the repo https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/blob/master/askbot/doc/source/changelog.rst take a look. Most recent additions are on top. This is the best information we can offer right now.
 
 
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Thank you. Today I stumbled on Askbot searching for open source Q&A platforms that I could host. The home page did not make it convincing enough as I would have liked a comprehensive feature list and a prominent link to http://askbot.org/en/questions/ But once I came here I instantly fell in love with Askbot just for its awesome design. And have been hanging around here trying to figure out all the features myself. So I still believe an features page like  OSQA will be helpful.
 
 
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