Agorapulse vs Discourse

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

Discourse (rank #189) holds a modest lead over Agorapulse (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 32). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Agorapulse carries 308 GitHub stars across 80 public repos, with 16 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 180.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Agorapulse is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.