Blackbird vs Mattermost

Blackbird and Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a meaningful lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 30). The gap of 32 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Mattermost shows 49,882 stars across 262 public repos, 58 active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 3117.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Mattermost looks better where code quality 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.