Mattermost vs Unsplash

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a modest lead over Unsplash (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 43). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors on record. Unsplash shows 9,930 stars across 63 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 Mattermost's footprint is roughly 5.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Unsplash 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.