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DiscordSoundboardvsDiscourse

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

DiscordSoundboardDiscourse
Score46/10083/100
Rank in category#64 of 110 in Chat#1 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums
GitHub stars15148 024
Stars, last 30 days—+135
Stable releases, 12 months51
Latest releasev4.1.54 · 4 Mar 2026_gh-attach-assets · 15 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-2.0
Main languageTypescriptRuby

Which one should you pick?

Discourse scores 83/100 against 46/100 for DiscordSoundboard, so it is the safer default.

DiscordSoundboard ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for Discourse.

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

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