What Q&A Forum Platform Does SEOmoz Use?
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Completely custom built, or a 3rd party offering that can be customized? One of the most usable forums I've seen!
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haha thanks!
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Ha -- SEOmoz should offer a license/white-label of the forum technology. I'm sure there are many others (have not shopped yet) but I like this one.
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It does make it difficult to have multiple platforms, I'll have to ask a dev though about whether we're planning on moving it all to RoR. I believe PRO is actually built on a different platform even, oy!
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Exactly.
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wow, really? awesome! Does it make it harder to have different platforms... or will you guys be switching the main site over to RoR someday?
Thanks Jen!
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Q&A = the community forum we are interacting on right now, so yes.
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Thanks! I should have clarified. I meant the community forum that we're interacting on right now -- is that all custom on Ruby too?
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Q&A is completely custom built in Ruby.
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Actually the main site is built with CakePHP but Q&A is not. This is built in Ruby.
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Yeah, it's all pretty much right. I believe the RoR token is likely for the Web App. It won't detect cakephp though, because it's a server-side framework and will therefore execute prior to the page being being returned to a browser. That said, I'm actually surprised it detected RoR.
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Yeah, I should have clarified. I meant the community forum that we're interacting on right now.
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Their Help Desk is on Zendesk.
If you mean this Q&A? I'm absolutely sure it's custom built with cakephp.
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Interesting - Zendesk looks pretty powerful. I need to research more -- on the first 1 minute glance it looks more like a customer support engine vs. a forum manager, but I'm sure it can do both.
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Hi there,
I believe it's Zendesk on an Amazon CloudFront platform, though am sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong.
Regards
Simon
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