r/programming

Founded February 2006 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 11

Computer Programming

Members

6,918,868

6.9M

Online now

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Posts per day

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Comments per post

13.3

Growth · 7d

+0.0%

+1.8K members · ≈7d

Growth · 30d

+0.1%

+8.8K members · ≈30d

Published rules

15

1 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

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no sample yet

Distinct posters

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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/programming's rules say about promotion

1 of 15 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. No "I Made This" Project Demo Posts

    rule 6 of 15

    r/programming is not a place to post your project, get feedback, ask for help, or promote your startup. Technical write-ups on what makes a project technically challenging, interesting, or educational are allowed and encouraged, but just a link to a GitHub page or a list of features is not. The technical writeup must be the focus of the post, not just a tickbox-checking exercise to get us to allow it. This is a technical subreddit. We don't care what you built, we care how you build it.

    Removal reason shown to posters: This is an "I made this" post with no technical writeup.

The other 14

  • Post actual programming content!
  • Post articles or news interesting to programmers!
  • No LLM-Written Content
  • No Political Posts or Personal/Social Drama/Gossip
  • No Non-Programming LLM/Diffusion Content
  • No Content Aggregators
  • No Surveys Or Job Postings
  • No Support Questions or AskReddit-Type Questions
  • No Meta Posts
  • No Images, Memes, Or Other Low Effort Posts
  • No Blogspam
  • No Extreme Beginner Content
  • Comments: No Bots
  • Comments: No Incivility

Read from r/programming’s published rules on Mar 12. 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/programming — frequently asked

How many members does r/programming have?

r/programming has 6,918,868 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 11. 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/programming growing?

Over the last ≈30 days r/programming changed by +0.1% — a gain of 8.8K 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/programming?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/programming 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/programming created?

r/programming was founded in February 2006 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/programming?

r/programming publishes 15 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No "I Made This" Project Demo Posts”, says: r/programming is not a place to post your project, get feedback, ask for help, or promote your startup. Technical write-ups on what makes a project technically challenging, interesting, or educational are allowed and… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

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