Discord vs Gravity Forms

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Discord carries 28,570 GitHub stars across 327 public repos, with 36 repositories active in the last 90 days and 41 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 255.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Gravity Forms makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.