BigCommerce vs Discord

BigCommerce 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.

BigCommerce and Discord sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (55), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 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 8.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Discord looks better where reach 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.