Known
Collaborative social publishing platform.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Sep 2026.
Comparisons in Blogging Platforms: WordPress.com alternatives.
At a glance
Known quick facts
- Health score
- 44/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 1,125
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- 1.6.4, Mar 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to Known
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Known scores 44/100, #10 of 15 in Blogging Platforms: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.6.4, 8 months ago) earns 22.1 of 25, 1,125 stars add 12.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. 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 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 22.1 / 25
1.6.4 released 8 months ago
- Stars 12.2 / 20
1.1k 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
- 59
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 15 tools in Blogging Platforms by health , between PluXml (#9) and HTMLy (#11) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 1.6.4 · 8 months ago |
| Stars | 1,125 |
| Open issues | 138 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | idno/idno ↗ |
Known vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Known (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 |
| Known (this tool) | 44 | 1.1k | Apache-2.0 | 2 months ago |
Known: common questions
Is Known still maintained?
Known had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, 1.6.4, is from 8 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.