18 self-hosted DEV Community (DEV.to) alternatives

Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with built-in newsletters, membership management, and paid subscriptions.

55.1k stars11.9k forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Halo is an open-source CMS and site builder with themes, plugins, an editor, backups, REST APIs, and optional AI extensions for content and knowledge sites.

39.6k stars10.3k forksGPL-3.0last commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

WriteFreely is a clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for creating minimalist blogs and communities, with ActivityPub federation and low-resource Go deployment.

5.2k stars392 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

BroadcastChannel turns a public Telegram Channel into a fast, SEO-friendly microblog website with RSS feeds and minimal client-side JavaScript.

2.1k stars1k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 19 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Open-source Ruby on Rails blogging and publishing platform (formerly Typo) with themes, plugins, multilingual support and an official demo.

1.9k stars3.6k forksMITlast commit 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

HTMLy is a fast, databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS with built-in search, themes, categories/tags, and an admin dashboard for managing content.

1.4k stars309 forksGPL-2.0last commit 25 Jan 2026Slowing down

Open-source publishing platform enabling multi-user blogs, status updates, and media on your own site.

1.1k stars197 forkslast commit 12 Apr 2026Actively maintained

Private, self-hosted blogging app with Markdown editor, private RSS, built-in reader, and Docker/Postgres deployment options.

801 stars48 forksMITlast commit 11 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Minimal, accessible PHP blogging engine with Twig themes, modular Feathers and modules for media, tags, comments, and simple caching. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

493 stars70 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit 7 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.

426 stars33 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 25 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Minimal Django-based blogging platform focused on writing. Markdown posts, per-user subdomains, RSS/email subscriptions, Hugo/Zola/EPUB exports, image hosting and API.

367 stars29 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 5 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Self-hosted, low-footprint microblogging and blog engine in Rust with Markdown posts, file uploads, RSS following, backups, and built-in search.

325 stars19 forksMITlast commit 17 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine offering a lightweight blog platform with plugins, themes, media library, comments, and multi-database support.

226 stars93 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit 13 Aug 2026Actively maintained

File-based PHP blogging engine that requires no database. Provides Smarty-powered themes, a plugin/widget system, comments with spam protection, and easy backups.

215 stars66 forksGPL-2.0last commit 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Antville is a high-performance, multi-tenant blog hosting system implemented in server-side JavaScript (Helma). It supports relational databases, RSS, comments, themes and SMTP notifications.

90 stars14 forkslast commit 30 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Faridoon is a lightweight PHP application for saving, moderating, and publishing favorite chat quotes. It supports user accounts, admin approval, Docker deployment and MySQL.

52 stars3 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 23 Aug 2026Actively maintained

A lightweight open-source PHP blog engine with multilingual support, themes/plugins, media manager, and multi-database compatibility (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite).

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Open source ActivityPub-powered federated forum and link aggregator for running and joining community discussions across the Fediverse.

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