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Discord vs IFTTT

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over IFTTT (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 40). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. IFTTT shows 15,307 stars across 75 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. IFTTT 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricDiscordIFTTT
Ranking
Overall rank#103#430
Pillars
Overall5540
Code5446
Education8472
Community4931
Reach4556
Momentum702
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars28,57015,307
Forks5,6871,499
Public repos32775
Active repos (90d)361
External contributors412
Avg polish5349
Avg AI-readiness3742

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