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r/Frontend

Bringing the web out of 2007 since 2013.

Founded August 2011 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 13

/r/frontend is a subreddit for front end web developers who want to move the web forward or want to learn how. If you're looking to find or share the latest and greatest tips, links, thoughts, and discussions on the world of front web development, this is the place to do it.

Members

350,592

351K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

1.9

from the last 100 posts, spanning 52.0 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.9%

+3.2K members · ≈36d

Published rules

5

1 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

Sep 12

sampled Sep 13

Distinct posters

84%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What r/Frontend's rules say about promotion

1 of 5 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. Self Promotion spam

    rule 1 of 5

    "It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account." - Confucius

    Removal reason shown to posters: Skewed ratio of self promotion to normal posting

The other 4

  • Posting your project without the source or repo
  • No Recruiters
  • Stay on the topic of Frontend
  • ChatGPT comment/post

Read from r/Frontend’s published rules on May 28. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.

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r/Frontend — frequently asked

How many members does r/Frontend have?

r/Frontend has 350,592 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Frontend growing?

Over the last ≈36 days r/Frontend changed by +0.9% — a gain of 3.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/Frontend?

Around 1.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 52.0 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/Frontend created?

r/Frontend was founded in August 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/Frontend?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 84% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 12. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/Frontend?

r/Frontend publishes 5 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Self Promotion spam”, says: "It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account." - Confucius Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/Frontend for mentions?

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Can my AI agent read r/Frontend's stats?

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r/Frontend Subreddit Stats — 351K members, 1.9 posts/day