Discord vs SolarWinds

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

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 35). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 25.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. SolarWinds 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.