Discord vs Increase

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Discord (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 55). The gap of 5 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 Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is clearly ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is ahead of Discord. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Discord. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of Increase.

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. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 634.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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