Discord vs Starling Bank

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

Discord (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 33). The gap of 22 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 Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Discord is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Discord is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is ahead of Discord. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Discord is clearly ahead of Starling Bank.

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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 146.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.