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StackOverflow has a product for created a distributed company knowledge base (basically a private stack overflow).

Compared to chat or wikis I can see an argument that it is good for a distributed team - although in my company we tried it for a bit and didn’t find it to fit with our team.

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I agree with the concept, but Question2Answer running on the company intranet or as a subdomain behind a SSO login at questions.<company>.<tld> could serve much of the same purpose without having to pay for yet another SaaS offering.

/rant of an on-prem diehard

> on-prem

And then the Question2Answer app is never updated by infra, it falls 402 releases behind mainline, and gradually becomes unusable due to constant crashes.

The company then spends ten times the install cost for an external consultant to migrate the content to cloud. (It's a living)

as a remote dev currently using a private stack overflow for knowledge base, I'm curious what your team went with

We didn't pick a competing product, really. We just use Confluence, which we were already using anyway. Not enough team members contributed to the SO pilot for it to seem worth continuing after the trial period.

I think it probably has a lot to do with team size, industry, and also with how distributed/remote the team is whether it's worthwhile.

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