Talkyard
Create a community, where your users can suggest ideas and get questions answered. And have friendly open-ended discussions and chat (Slack/StackOverflow/Discourse/Reddit/Disqus hybrid).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Partly: no commits in 90 days, but tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular shipped in May 2026.
Comparisons in Communication - Social Networks and Forums: Twitter alternatives, Facebook Groups alternatives, Reddit alternatives, Disqus alternatives.
At a glance
Talkyard quick facts
- Health score
- 58/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 1,814
- Last commit
- 4 months ago (Jul 2026)
- Latest release
- tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular, May 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Find out here . Self-Hosting:  See talkyard-prod-one Demo:  https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io Discussion forum:  https://forum.talkyard.io Documentation:  https://docs.talkyard.io (incomplete) Development:  That's this repo! See: docs/developing-talkyard.md."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Talkyard scores 58/100, #35 of 40 in Communication - Social Networks and Forums: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular, 5 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,814 stars add 13.0 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 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 25.0 / 25
tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular released 5 months ago
- Stars 13.0 / 20
1.8k 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
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 195
- Last 12 months
- 4 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #35 of 40 tools in Communication - Social Networks and Forums by health , between phpBB (#34) and Flarum (#36) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Scala |
| Latest release | tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular · 5 months ago |
| Stars | 1,814 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | debiki/talkyard ↗ |
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Talkyard: common questions
Is Talkyard still maintained?
Talkyard had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 months ago; the latest tagged release, tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular, is from 5 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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