ActiveCampaign vs Discord

ActiveCampaign and Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over ActiveCampaign (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 38). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ActiveCampaign is slightly ahead of Discord. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is ahead of ActiveCampaign. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is ahead of ActiveCampaign. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is ahead of ActiveCampaign. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of ActiveCampaign.

ActiveCampaign carries 6,653 GitHub stars across 88 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Discord shows 28,570 stars across 327 public repos, 36 active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 4.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ActiveCampaign is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Discord looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.