Ever since Declan built the bulk of xTalk in 2 days, I've been itching to do a weekend hobby project of my own. But this is the first weekend I've had enough free time to bother. I was browsing StackOverflow the other day and thought, "There's really not that much to the site... I can probably write my own version in a weekend." So I did. In about 7 hours. It's called Elenchus... I'll leave the deciphering of the obscure reference as an exercise for the reader.

You can see the application in action here. I've also added it as a new project on OpenNTF.

One bit that is somewhat incomplete so far is the "karma" model: when you post an answer, or vote on an answer, or someone votes on yours, it increases your reputation. In Beta 2, that will affect the sort order of answers when viewing a question - answers posted by someone with higher karma, theoretically, are likelier to be the "right" answer. Most of the code for that is already written and just needs to be plugged in; in the meantime, answers just display sorted descending by date.

I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback on this application...