Apache Answer VS mkdocs-material

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Slightly offtopic. If anyone is looking for self-hosted alternative to SO then answer [0] is a great choice. I just brought up an instance at [1] if you want to know how it looks like.

[0]: https://github.com/answerdev/answer

[1]: https://selfhosting.quest [IPv6 only]

https://github.com/answerdev/answer#readme is Apache 2 licensed, the sibling comment pointed out that the existing S.O. data is open licensed, but your premise has the same problem every "I'm going to take my ball and go play in the other yard" does: the network effect is very, very real

I keep my notes on https://answer.dev/ self hosted

This is pretty interesting, I didn't know this (answer.dev) was available. I think for my own usage I might get frustrated with having to write the question and answer separately. But a cool thing to add to the list to check out some time, thanks!

Something like: https://github.com/answerdev/answer

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Material Mk-Docs by Martin Donath works well if you prefer python.

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

I'm an 'outsider', but from from the outside the Material For MkDocs Project looks like a very well managed open source project.

Martin Donath's project uses a 'sponsorware' release strategy to generate donations.

From my vantage point it seems to be working pretty well.

I just recently went through this decision process. My aim is to write code and math oriented posts so I need good support for nice syntax highlighting (at least colored) and mathjax (preferable) or katex. Substack is the most popular newsletter platform but fails at these two criteria. I love how math and syntax highlighting (plus numerous other features) work in MkDocs Material, which recently added a Blog plugin.

I wanted to combine the best of both: Substack as an amazing email social network, and MkDocs Material’s awesome look. So I’ve gone with using Substack as the core platform which I use to manage subscribers, and use it to post either math/code-free posts or a short teasers pointing to my main blog site on MkDocs Material when I need to show math/code

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

I've been migrating content to MKDocs (Material) over the last few months, so feel fairly qualified on this subject. It's somewhat limited in terms of navigation, but can probably handle 400-500 pages; you can see how navigation works in the link. Otherwise, it can handle most, if not all, the tasks you've listed.