What Q&A Forum Platform Does SEOmoz Use?

[SEOPA]

Completely custom built, or a 3rd party offering that can be customized? One of the most usable forums I've seen!

[SimonCullum]

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

[SEOPA]

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.

[DonnieCooper]

Their Help Desk is on Zendesk.

If you mean this Q&A? I'm absolutely sure it's custom built with cakephp.

[SEOPA]

Yeah, I should have clarified. I meant the community forum that we're interacting on right now.

[duncan274]

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[DonnieCooper]

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.

[jennita]

Actually the main site is built with CakePHP but Q&A is not. This is built in Ruby.

[jennita]

Q&A is completely custom built in Ruby. Thanks!

[SEOPA]

Thanks! I should have clarified. I meant the community forum that we're interacting on right now -- is that all custom on Ruby too?

[RyanKent]

Q&A = the community forum we are interacting on right now, so yes.

[DonnieCooper]

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!

[jennita]

Exactly.

[jennita]

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!

[SEOPA]

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.

[jennita]

haha thanks!