Discord vs Yoast

Discord (A new way to chat with your communities and friends. Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.) and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Discord (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 49). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 8.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.