remark42
remark42 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 5,637 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 5,637
- Forks
- 459
- Open issues
- 71
- Commits, last 12 months
- 260
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.18.0Oct 11, 2026
- Created
- Dec 20, 2017
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 260 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 260 |
| Latest release | v1.18.0 (Oct 11, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 33 |
| Open issues | 71 |
| Open pull requests | 10 |
| Good first issues | 6 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 20, 2017 |
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About remark42
Lightweight and simple comment engine, which doesn't spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles or any other place where readers add comments.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/umputun/remark42.
Topics
- commenting
- comment-system
- self-hosted
- commenting-engines
- comments-widget
- remark42
- privacy
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Is remark42 free and open source?
Yes. remark42 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 remark42 with Docker?
Yes. remark42 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 remark42?
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Is remark42 actively maintained?
The most recent commit to remark42 was on Oct 25, 2026 with 260 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.18.0, published Oct 11, 2026. It had 71 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.