Discord vs Proton Mail

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

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (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), Proton Mail is ahead of Discord. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is clearly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Discord is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is ahead of Proton Mail.

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. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail looks better where code quality 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.