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homeland vs kun-galgame-forum
homeland has 3,859 GitHub stars, 1,176 forks, 27 open issues and last shipped 1 months ago. kun-galgame-forum has 1,973 stars, 76 forks, 15 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. homeland leads on adoption by 96% (3,859 vs 1,973 stars). homeland is written in Ruby under MIT; kun-galgame-forum is written in Go under AGPL-3.0. homeland has attracted 30% as many forks as stars, kun-galgame-forum 4%. kun-galgame-forum was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (forum), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| homeland | kun-galgame-forum | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 3.9K | ★ 2.0K |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-08-08 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.2K | ⑂ 76 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick homeland if
- You weight community size — 3.9K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick kun-galgame-forum if
- You want the kun-galgame-forum feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and kun-galgame-forum fits your workflow better
About homeland
Homeland is an open source forum and community system written in Ruby and built on Ruby on Rails. It is described as an open source discussion website, and its tagline says that it was developed based on Ruby China. That places it in the community platform category, where the main purpose is to operate a discussion website.
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About kun-galgame-forum
kun galgame forum is an open source forum application for visual novel and galgame communities. It is built as a pnpm workspace monorepo with a Go Fiber v3 BFF and REST API, a Nuxt 4 SSR frontend, and PostgreSQL. The project is licensed under AGPL 3.0 and is a downstream application of nextmoe infra, which supplies identity and shared services.
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Frequently asked questions
Is homeland or kun-galgame-forum more popular?
homeland has 3,859 GitHub stars and kun-galgame-forum has 1,973. homeland has the larger community by that measure.
Are homeland and kun-galgame-forum free?
Both are open source. homeland is licensed under MIT and kun-galgame-forum under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between homeland and kun-galgame-forum?
homeland is written in Ruby and kun-galgame-forum in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, homeland or kun-galgame-forum?
Choose homeland if you want the larger community (3,859 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose kun-galgame-forum if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.