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quassel-webservervsTube Archivist

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

quassel-webserverTube Archivist
Score43/10072/100
Rank in category#79 of 110 in Chat#7 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars2118 552
Stars, last 30 days+0+83
Stable releases, 12 months06
Latest release—v0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageLessPython

Which one should you pick?

Tube Archivist scores 72/100 against 43/100 for quassel-webserver, so it is the safer default.

Tube Archivist ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for quassel-webserver.

If you want the quickest setup, quassel-webserver is easier to run; Tube Archivist needs more configuration.

Tube Archivist is growing faster right now (+83 stars in 30 days).

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