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quassel-webservervsWriteFreely

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

quassel-webserverWriteFreely
Score43/10065/100
Rank in category#79 of 110 in Chat#2 of 24 in Blogging
GitHub stars2115 276
Stars, last 30 days+0+19
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v0.17.2 · 10 Aug 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageLessGo

Which one should you pick?

WriteFreely scores 65/100 against 43/100 for quassel-webserver, so it is the safer default.

WriteFreely ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for quassel-webserver.

WriteFreely is growing faster right now (+19 stars in 30 days).

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