Answer
Answer is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Reddit and ships a Docker image. It has 15,700 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 21, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 15,700
- Forks
- 1,378
- Open issues
- 101
- Commits, last 12 months
- 282
- Last commit
- Oct 21, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.0.3Oct 9, 2026
- Created
- Sep 29, 2022
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 21, 2026, 282 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases4 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 21, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 282 |
| Latest release | v2.0.3 (Oct 9, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 4 |
| Releases, all time | 69 |
| Open issues | 101 |
| Open pull requests | 35 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Sep 29, 2022 |
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About Answer
Knowledge-based community software. You can use it to quickly build your Q&A community for product technical support, customer support, user communication, and more.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/apache/answer.
Topics
- community
- golang
- react
- forum
- question
- go
- q-and-a
- hacktoberfest
- typescript
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Is Answer free and open source?
Yes. Answer is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Answer with Docker?
Yes. Answer provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Answer?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Answer include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum. Answer itself is a self-hosted alternative to Reddit.
Is Answer actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Answer was on Oct 21, 2026 with 282 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.0.3, published Oct 9, 2026. It had 101 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.