r/programming
Computer Programming
Members
6,909,744
6.9M
Posts per day
5.0
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
medium
read the sidebar rules first
Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 7 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/programming — frequently asked
How many members does r/programming have?
r/programming has 6,909,744 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 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?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/programming yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/programming?
Around 5.0 posts per day. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
Can I promote my product in r/programming?
Our read on r/programming is medium promo tolerance. A product mention is fine when it genuinely answers the question asked, and unwelcome when it does not. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/programming for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/programming 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.