r/webdev
webdev: reddit for web developers
Founded January 2009 · Public — anyone can post
A community dedicated to all things web development: both front-end and back-end. For more design-related questions, try /r/web_design.
Members
3,317,923
3.3M
Online now
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Growth · 7d
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Published rules
8
3 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 6 · 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/webdev's rules say about promotion
3 of 8 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No self-promotion
rule 3 of 8
Read and follow reddiquette; no excessive self-promotion. Please refer to the Reddit 9:1 rule when considering posting self promoting materials.
Removal reason shown to posters: No excessive self-promotion
No commercial promotions/solicitations
rule 4 of 8
We do not allow any commercial promotion or solicitation. Violations can result in a ban.
Removal reason shown to posters: No commercial promotion or solicitation
No soliciting feedback not on Saturday
rule 5 of 8
Sharing your project, portfolio, or any other content that you want to either show off or request feedback on is limited to Showoff Saturday. If you post such content on any other day, it will be removed.
Removal reason shown to posters: Requesting Feedback not on Saturday
The other 5
- No vague support questions about WYSIWYG editors or other software.
- No memes, screenshots, and jokes
- Assistance Questions Guidelines
- Career/Getting Started Questions
- No low-effort posts/comments
Read from r/webdev’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.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/webdev discusses.
/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.
A subreddit for learning web development and design. If you want to learn how to make websites or applications, this is the place for you.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/webdev — frequently asked
How many members does r/webdev have?
r/webdev has 3,317,923 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 10. 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/webdev growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/webdev yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 6; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/webdev?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/webdev 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/webdev created?
r/webdev was founded in January 2009 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/webdev?
r/webdev publishes 8 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “No self-promotion”, says: Read and follow reddiquette; no excessive self-promotion. Please refer to the Reddit 9:1 rule when considering posting self promoting materials. 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/webdev for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/webdev 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/webdev's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/webdev'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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