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Mattermost vs The Washington Post

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a meaningful lead over The Washington Post (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 37). The gap of 25 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 The Washington Post. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Mattermost is ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Mattermost is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mattermost is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mattermost is clearly ahead of The Washington Post.

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. 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 Mattermost's footprint is roughly 18.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricMattermostThe Washington Post
Ranking
Overall rank#40#510
Pillars
Overall6237
Code7850
Education6649
Community4718
Reach7950
Momentum7718
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars49,8822,751
Forks17,6581,061
Public repos26291
Active repos (90d)583
External contributors1050
Avg polish8855
Avg AI-readiness4630

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