Welcome to the official repository for Plato.
Plato is free, open source user community & customer support software built upon .NET core. Plato offers a complete stack of fully integrated tools to help you offer a simple, branded support experience for your users or customers.
Plato can be used to...
- Collaborate with your users through fully featured public or private discussions
- Easily publish beautiful product or technical documentation to help your users
- Provide an online knowledge base of helpful support resources
- Support products through public or private Q&A features
- Shape products through public or private product ideation & voting
- Improve products through public or private issue tracking & voting
Plato is written in C# using .NET Core 2.2, MVC6 & Bootstrap 4.
You can see below the main modules offered with Plato. You can custom fit Plato to suite your requirements with hundreds of extra modules.
Plato.Discuss adds a fully featured user community to Plato.
Plato.Docs adds beautiful product documentation all written in Markdown to Plato.
Plato.Articles adds a searchable online knowledgebase to Plato.
Plato.Questions adds public or private Q&A to Plato.
Plato.Ideas adds public or private ideation to Plato.
Plato.Issues added public or private issues tracking to Plato.
To learn more about Plato please visit the projedts official web site https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/
Our documentation is probably the best place to get started with Plato.
https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/docs/
Please discuss Plato, post your questions, suggest ideas or report issues via our own Plato installation at...
https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/support/
All projects within the Plato core are namespaced Plato.Internal. You can browse all Plato core projects here...
https://github.com/InstantASP/plato/tree/master/src
Modules provide the real funcitonality offered by Plato. You can browse all official modules here...
https://github.com/InstantASP/plato/tree/master/src/Plato/Modules
The Plato web site is minimal but can be found here...
https://github.com/InstantASP/plato/tree/master/src/Plato
For the latest stable releases please see our releases page.
Only the master branch is suitible for production. All other branches are development branches and should never be used in production.
We welcome contributions and will always support and assist contributors. Before considering a contribution please see our simple guidelines.
We strive to ensure Plato is as secure as possible. Plato is open source software and the code can be reviewed by anyone on the internet. We are confident in the quality of our code and have nothing to hide but should you discover any vulnerabilities, attacks or room for improvement please do let us know immediately via email to sales@instantasp.co.uk and we will assist as quickly as possible.
Plato is free, open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Plato - Better, Faster Support... Free
Copyright (C) 2019, InstantASP Limited
Plato is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the version 3 terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Plato is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Plato. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ or
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt.
Before using Plato please review the Plato license and ensure your happy with the terms and conditions defined by the GPL.
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