r/programming
Founded February 2006 · Public — anyone can post
Computer Programming
Members
6,918,868
6.9M
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
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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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/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.
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.
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.
Can my AI agent read r/programming's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/programming'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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