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| # Introduction |
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| Apache Answer helps you to build a community between your users and your team. It's a place where you can share your knowledge and help your users to solve their problems. |
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| ## Features |
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| ### Streamlined Q&A Experience |
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| - **Question & Answer**: Submit and answer questions effortlessly. |
| - **Real-time Preview with Markdown**: Create your content and see formatting as you type with intuitive Markdown side by side, compatible with CommonMark. |
| - **Ping an Expert**: Notify relevant users in the community who might have the answer for a quicker response. |
| - **Advanced Search**: Find the content you’re looking for quickly with filtering options and tag, username, score, etc. |
| - **Real-Time Suggestions**: Discover relevant questions as you type, and jump right to it. |
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| ### Hassle-free Community Management |
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| - **Admin/Moderator/User Roles**: Manage user access levels for optimal control. |
| - **Add Bulk Users**: Add multiple users at once and expand the community efficiently. |
| - **Tagging System**: Organize the content with the tags for both efficient categorization and easy navigation. |
| - **Open Editing and Collaboration**: Everyone can edit existing questions, answers, and tags to keep the content accurate and up-to-date. |
| - **Transparent Revision History**: Every edit made can be tracked and stored for reference, allowing users to see how the content has evolved over time. |
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| ### Cultivate a Thriving Community |
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| - **Voting System**: Build a better community with your voice: upvote the great answers, and downvote those doesn’t. |
| - **Reputation System**: Earn recognition with contributions and unlock privileges in the community. |
| - **Notification**: Always get notified of new comments, answers, invites, votes, and more. |
| - **Follow Tags**: Follow tags and stay in the loop of your favorite Q&A. |
| - **User Profile**: Show expertise, interests, and contributions to the community with pride. |
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| ### Customization and Plugins |
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| - **Themes and Layouts**: Customize the online community to match your identity. |
| - **Plugins**: Empower your Apache Answer with plugins built by the community, such as third-party login, cache, search, etc. |
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| ### Privacy and Security |
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| - **Login Access Control**: Take control of registrations, login methods, and allowed email domains to create a secure environment for the community. |
| - **Content Access Control**: Content is accessible to the community members only, keeping the community discussions safe. |
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| ### More |
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| - **Multilingual**: Build and host your community in different languages translated by the community. |
| - **Responsive Layout**: Join the community conversation seamlessly from any device. |
| - **Dark Mode**: Personalize community experience to stay concentrated. |
| - **Separation of front-end and back-end**: It is a monorepo that contains both the frontend and the backend. |
