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Discoursevslxd-dashboard

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

Discourselxd-dashboard
Score83/10043/100
Rank in category#1 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums#34 of 44 in Container Management
GitHub stars48 029348
Stars, last 30 days+133+0
Stable releases, 12 months10
Latest release_gh-attach-assets · 15 Jul 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageRubyHack

Which one should you pick?

Discourse scores 83/100 against 43/100 for lxd-dashboard, so it is the safer default.

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

Discourse is growing faster right now (+133 stars in 30 days).

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