Discord vs Zscaler, Inc.

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

Discord (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Zscaler, Inc. (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 45). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Zscaler, Inc. shows 337 stars across 58 public repos, 33 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discord's footprint is roughly 84.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discord is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Zscaler, Inc. 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.