Welcome to the official repository for Plato.

Plato is the only fully integrated platform designed to help businesses connect & stay engaged with users to gather feedback, provide support & deliver better products. Plato offers everything needed to provide a simple, branded product support site.

A 7 day free trial of Plato is available and sign-up takes above 2 minutes. To get started visit the Plato web site @ https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/

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
• Share files publicly or privately with your users or team

Plato is written in C# using ASP.NET Core 3.1, MVC6 & Bootstrap 4.

Live Demo

Our demo provides full access to the Plato administrator dashaboard allowing you to explore Plato...

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/discuss/t/160/plato-demo

Plato In Action

You can see below the main modules offered with Plato. You can custom fit Plato to suite your specific requirements via hundreds of extra modules.

Discuss

Plato.Discuss adds a fully featured user community to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/discuss

Docs

Plato.Docs adds beautiful product documentation all written in Markdown to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/docs

Articles

Plato.Articles adds a searchable knowledgebase to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/articles

Questions

Plato.Questions adds public or private Q&A to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/questions

Ideas

Plato.Ideas adds public or private ideation to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/ideas

Issues

Plato.Issues adds public or private issues tracking to Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/features/issues

Web Site

To learn more about Plato please visit the projects official web site...

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/

Documentation

Our documentation is probably the best place to get started with Plato.

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/docs/

Community

Please discuss Plato, post your questions, suggest ideas or report issues via our own Plato installation at...

https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/support/

Navigating the Code

Core

You can browse the PlatoCore project here...

https://github.com/InstantASP/Plato/tree/master/src/Core

Modules

Modules provide the real functionality offered by Plato. You can browse all official modules here...

https://github.com/InstantASP/Plato/tree/master/src/Web/Modules

Web App

The Plato web app is minimal but can be found here...

https://github.com/InstantASP/Plato/tree/master/src/Web

Versions

Stable Branch ( master )

Whilst we will always try to keep the master branch as stable as possible for production environments, we would always suggest using the latest official release from the releases page.

Experimental Branches

All other branches are development branches and should never be used in production.

Contributions

We welcome contributions and will always support and assist contributors. Before considering a contribution please see our simple guidelines.

Security

We strive to ensure Plato is as secure as possible. 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 [email protected] and we will assist as quickly as possible.

License

Plato is a commercial product and requires a paid license for possession or use. Using Plato is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plato EULA at https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/legal/license.

To acquire a license, you can purchase one at https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/pricing. A free open source license is also available for open source projects who have less than $250,000 USD in annual gross revenue - https://plato.instantasp.co.uk/open-source

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