Artalk
Artalk is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,355 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,355
- Forks
- 213
- Open issues
- 78
- Commits, last 12 months
- 80
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.10.1Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Oct 2, 2018
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 80 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 80 |
| Latest release | v2.10.1 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 38 |
| Open issues | 78 |
| Open pull requests | 24 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 2, 2018 |
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About Artalk
Comment system built in Golang, providing a lightweight and highly customizable solution for adding comments to your website.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/ArtalkJS/Artalk.
Topics
- comment-system
- blog
- self-hosted
- golang
- comments
- vanilla-js
- artalk
- commenting
- comments-widget
- components
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Is Artalk free and open source?
Yes. Artalk is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Artalk with Docker?
Yes. Artalk provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Artalk?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Artalk include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is Artalk actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Artalk was on Oct 25, 2026 with 80 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.10.1, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 78 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.