ForestAdmin vs Mattermost

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a modest lead over ForestAdmin (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 51). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. Mattermost shows 49,882 stars across 262 public repos, 58 active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 14.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Mattermost looks better where momentum 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.