Discord vs Woo

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors.

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