LinkedIn vs The Washington Post

LinkedIn and The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

LinkedIn (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 37). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

LinkedIn carries 77,785 GitHub stars across 137 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors on record. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but LinkedIn's footprint is roughly 28.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

LinkedIn is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. The Washington Post makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.