Discourse vs Stripe

Discourse (The 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.) and Stripe both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Stripe (rank #1) holds a meaningful lead over Discourse (rank #189) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (76 vs 50). The gap of 26 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Stripe shows 44,519 stars across 97 public repos, 64 active in the last 90 days and 124 external contributors.

Discourse is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Stripe looks better where education 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.