Discord vs Segment

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

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

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. Segment shows 58,406 stars across 421 public repos, 53 active in the last 90 days and 12 external contributors.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Segment looks better where community 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.