Discord vs Loom

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Loom (Async Video Messaging for Work) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Loom (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Loom shows 50 stars across 32 public repos, 5 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 571.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Loom 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.