Storyden
by Storyden · Self-hosted forum and community knowledge library
BenchRank score
Screenshots of Storyden
Homepage
Overview
Storyden is an open-source community platform that presents discussion threads in the style of an old bulletin board forum, alongside a Library of structured, organised pages for material meant to last. It runs from a single Docker image, stores data in SQLite or PostgreSQL and files on the filesystem or S3, and exposes an OpenAPI-described API with a headless option.
- Best for
- Groups that want a self-hosted forum plus a library of lasting pages, on their own hardware.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the software is released as open source under the MIT licence and run on your own infrastructure.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- MIT-licensed and self-hosted, so the data stays on your servers
- Runs on SQLite or PostgreSQL, with files on disk or S3
- Starts from one docker run; needs 100 MB RAM and 1 CPU
- OpenAPI spec, 89 endpoints, and a headless option
Trade-offs
- Small project: 324 GitHub stars and 18 contributors listed
- You host and maintain it yourself; no managed option shown
- No pricing, support or SLA information published
- Homepage shows no moderation or user-management detail
How Storyden markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Storyden’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Communities deserve permanence.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Illustration
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Storyden’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Storyden pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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