What are the major challenges in creating a platform such as StackOverflow?

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Published on 2011-01-17T11:10:00Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 11:59 UTC
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Let us assume you were to create a platform such as StackOverflow. It needs to be functional, fast and scalable, just like SO, in order to be successful.

What are the major challenges you would face in such a task? I'm looking for technical challenges rather than problems such as how to advertise it and stuff like that.

(I'm not looking for ways of creating a new site to challenge SO; I'm just interested in how difficult it would be to create it if it didn't already exist.)

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