Discourse vs Userlike

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

Discourse (rank #189) holds a modest lead over Userlike (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 35). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Userlike shows 38 stars across 14 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Discourse's footprint is roughly 1465.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Discourse is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Userlike 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.