Unsplash vs The Washington Post

Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) and The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

Unsplash carries 9,930 GitHub stars across 63 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 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 Unsplash's footprint is roughly 3.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Unsplash is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. The Washington Post 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.