Ask HN: Best current options for an FAQ site?

6 pointsby dogweathervor 5 Jahren2 comments

I'm creating a new Q&A site, and wondering what the current good platforms would be. I could code this from scratch, but holy cow I'd really prefer not to. :-)

My use case: I'm a domain expert for the content, and also a senior dev. I'm comfortable with most programming languages and tools.

Is Discourse a good choice? I don't necessarily need the forum, although its forum support is fantastic. Does it have good support (maybe with an extension) for FAQs?

The Ghost Blogging platform also looks like very high quality, but on the downside it's not really a collaborative platform out of the box.

How about static site generators? Jekyll or something else? If the Q&A is GitHub based, then that'd work, but it wouldn't be very accessible to non-techie people.

Anything else I should consider? I'm ok with for-pay in addition to hosting my own.

2 comments

slatervor 5 Jahren

If it's gonna be expanded/edited by non-techie people, I'd say just use Wordpress (yesyes, i know...) with one of the many FAQ WP plugins

dogweathervor 5 Jahren

Ugh, you could be right. I've found a couple Discourse plugins, but haven't seen an example of a pages showing a comprehensive list of FAQs.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-discourse-to-q-a...