Slash
An open source, self-hosted bookmarks and link sharing platform.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 4 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.5.3 (Feb 2024).
Comparisons in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: Pocket alternatives.
At a glance
Slash quick facts
- Health score
- 39/100 STALE
- Stars
- 3,188
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.5.3, Feb 2024
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Slash is an open source, self-hosted platform designed to help you organize, manage, and share your most important links. Easily create customizable, human-readable shortcuts to streamline your link management. Use tags to categorize your links and share them easily with your team or publicly."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Slash scores 39/100, #18 of 19 in Bookmarks and Link Sharing: 4 commits in the last 90 days earn 4.7 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.5.3, 2.7 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 3,188 stars add 14.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 30.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 4.7 / 35
4 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v0.5.3 released 2.7 years ago
- Stars 14.0 / 20
3.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 4
- Last 90 days
- 13
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 19 tools in Bookmarks and Link Sharing by health , between Espial (#17) and 42links (#19) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v0.5.3 · 2.7 years ago |
| Stars | 3,188 |
| Open issues | 23 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | yourselfhosted/slash ↗ |
Slash vs its top 5 alternatives
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Slash: common questions
Is Slash still maintained?
Slash had 4 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, v0.5.3, is from 2.7 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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