Flink
Create QR Codes, embeddable link previews for your website and crawls/scrapes metadata.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Jun 2026.
Comparisons in URL Shorteners: Bitly alternatives.
At a glance
Flink quick facts
- Health score
- 45/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 20
- Last commit
- 5 months ago (Jun 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.6.0-rc02, Jan 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Flink
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Flink scores 45/100, #8 of 11 in URL Shorteners: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.6.0-rc02, 10 months ago) earns 19.5 of 25, 20 stars add 5.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitLab API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 19.5 / 25
2.6.0-rc02 released 10 months ago
- Stars 5.3 / 20
20 stars on GitLab (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 6
- Last 12 months
- 5 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 11 tools in URL Shorteners by health , between Kutt (#7) and rs-short (#9) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 2.6.0-rc02 · 10 months ago |
| Stars | 20 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | gitlab.com/rtraceio/web/flink ↗ |
Flink vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Flink (URL Shorteners), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shlink | 95 | 5.4k | MIT | 6 days ago |
| Chhoto URL | 92 | 996 | MIT | today |
| snowshare | 88 | 91 | CC0-1.0 | 2 days ago |
| Flink (this tool) | 45 | 20 | MIT | 5 months ago |
| rs-short | 35 | 5 | MPL-2.0 | 5 months ago |
| clink | 10 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 | 1.1 years ago |
Flink: common questions
Is Flink still maintained?
Flink had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 months ago; the latest tagged release, 2.6.0-rc02, is from 10 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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