r/programmer
A home for programmers
Founded October 2008 · Public — anyone can post
A community for programmers, discussion of programming, or general technology banter. --- **Guidelines** * Please keep submissions relevant to sub and high quality * Do not ask for help with anything illegal * No surveys * Follow proper [reddiquette](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette). * Refrain from self-promoting websites and YouTube channels --- **Related Info** Do you have programmer humor? Share it with /r/ProgrammerHumor For better visibility, try posting jobs at /r/forhire or
Members
35,253
35K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
4.9
from the last 100 posts, spanning 20.3 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 29
sampled Sep 29
Distinct posters
86%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 29 · 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
Tracking since Sep 29 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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A subreddit for all questions related to programming in any programming language (Contributions are only allowed in English!).
Software Developer Jobs Please try to limit your own listings to a handful per week. Spammers will be banned without prejudice.
For experienced developers. This community should be specialized subreddit facilitating discussion amongst individuals who have gained some ground in the software engineering world. Any posts or comments that are made by inexperienced individuals (outside of the weekly Ask thread) should be reported. Anything not specifically related to development or career advice that is _specific_ to Experienced Developers belongs elsewhere. Try /r/work, /r/AskHR, /r/careerguidance, or /r/OfficePolitics.
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r/programmer — frequently asked
How many members does r/programmer have?
r/programmer has 35,253 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 29. 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/programmer growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/programmer yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 29; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/programmer?
Around 4.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 20.3 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/programmer created?
r/programmer was founded in October 2008 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/programmer?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 86% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 29. 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/programmer?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/programmer yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/programmer for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/programmer 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/programmer's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/programmer'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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