Discord vs Linear

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord and Linear 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), Discord is ahead of Linear. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is clearly ahead of Linear. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is ahead of Linear. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Linear is clearly ahead of Discord. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of Linear.

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. Linear shows 1,971 stars across 22 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 14.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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