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indicovsForem Selfhost

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

indicoForem Selfhost
Score65/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 3 in Conference Management#2 of 6 in Community
GitHub stars2 1221 480
Stars, last 30 days+13—
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev3.3.14 · 13 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonJinja

Which one should you pick?

indico scores 65/100 against 51/100 for Forem Selfhost, so it is the safer default.

indico ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Forem Selfhost.

indico is growing faster right now (+13 stars in 30 days).

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