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agrepervsDiscourse

Two self-hosted Social Networks & Forums projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

agreperDiscourse
Score40/10083/100
Rank in category#63 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums#1 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums
GitHub stars65648 024
Stars, last 30 days—+135
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—_gh-attach-assets · 15 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-2.0
Main languagePythonRuby

Which one should you pick?

Discourse scores 83/100 against 40/100 for agreper, so it is the safer default.

Discourse ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for agreper.

Discourse is growing faster right now (+135 stars in 30 days).

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