Adyen vs Discourse

Adyen and Discourse (The 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adyen (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Discourse (rank #189) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 50). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adyen carries 2,684 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 49 repositories active in the last 90 days and 39 external contributors on record. Discourse shows 55,678 stars across 620 public repos, 90 active in the last 90 days and 44 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discourse's footprint is roughly 20.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adyen is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Discourse 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.