Discourse vs Salesforce

Discourse (The 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.) and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over Discourse (rank #189) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 50). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Discourse carries 55,678 GitHub stars across 620 public repos, with 90 repositories active in the last 90 days and 44 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Discourse is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Salesforce looks better where community 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.