r/Frontend
Bringing the web out of 2007 since 2013.
Founded August 2011 · Public — anyone can post
/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
352,635
353K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
15.2
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.6%
+2K members · ≈36d
Published rules
5
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
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.
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 352,635 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. 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 +0.6% — a gain of 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?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Frontend yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
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.
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?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Frontend into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Frontend's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Frontend's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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