Formspark vs Mattermost

Formspark 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 Formspark (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 42). The gap of 20 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 Formspark. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formspark is slightly ahead of Mattermost. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is ahead of Formspark. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Formspark. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of Formspark.

Formspark carries 67 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 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 744.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formspark is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Mattermost looks better where reach 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.