Antville
Free, open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2026.
Comparisons in Blogging Platforms: WordPress.com alternatives.
At a glance
Antville quick facts
- Health score
- 23/100 STALE
- Stars
- 90
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.6.0, Mar 2025
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Antville is an open source project providing a high performance, feature-rich blog hosting software. Antville can host tens of thousands of blogs. Server power is the only limit. Installation and use is easy."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Antville scores 23/100, #13 of 15 in Blogging Platforms: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.6.0, 1.7 years ago) earns 5.2 of 25, 90 stars add 7.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 5.2 / 25
1.6.0 released 1.7 years ago
- Stars 7.8 / 20
90 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 96
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 15 tools in Blogging Platforms by health , between Haven (#12) and Castopod (#14) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Javascript |
| Latest release | 1.6.0 · 1.7 years ago |
| Stars | 90 |
| Open issues | 50 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | antville/antville ↗ |
Antville vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Antville (Blogging Platforms), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ech0 | 93 | 2.1k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| fx | 90 | 335 | MIT | 5 days ago |
| Ghost | 89 | 56k | MIT | today |
| WriteFreely | 85 | 5.3k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| FlatPress | 77 | 218 | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Antville (this tool) | 23 | 90 | Apache-2.0 | today |
Antville: common questions
Is Antville still maintained?
Antville had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 1.6.0, is from 1.7 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.