Discord vs Metabase

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

Discord (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Metabase (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 51). The gap of 4 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 Metabase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is slightly ahead of Metabase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is ahead of Metabase. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is slightly ahead of Metabase. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is ahead of Metabase.

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. Metabase shows 50,225 stars across 100 public repos, 21 active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Metabase 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.