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Discord vs OpenCart

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 OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over OpenCart (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 41). The gap of 14 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 OpenCart. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is ahead of OpenCart. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is slightly ahead of OpenCart. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is ahead of OpenCart. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of OpenCart.

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. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 3.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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

Side-by-side metrics

MetricDiscordOpenCart
Ranking
Overall rank#103#401
Pillars
Overall5541
Code5442
Education8471
Community4947
Reach4535
Momentum7024
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars28,5708,157
Forks5,6875,060
Public repos3272
Active repos (90d)361
External contributors4126
Avg polish5350
Avg AI-readiness3729

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