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r/Backend↗

Software Engineering

For back-end programming discussion.

72k subscribers411 posts / mo in Sep 2026302 authors / mosince 2011

r/Backend has 72k members (+117% over the last 12 months). It gets about 411 posts a month from 302 people. Top topics: Developer Stacks, Backend Languages and Node.js APIs & Hosting.

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Size and growth

How r/Backend has grown

r/Backend

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+117%in 12 months · +10% in 3 months · +2.5% in 1 month
Oct 202671k
Growing71k subscribers
Data since Jun 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/Backend

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+117%vs Sep 2025 · −5.5% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026411
BusierPeaked at 597 in Mar 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Backend

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Developer Stacks22%
  2. Backend Languages3.3%
  3. Node.js APIs & Hosting1.8%
  4. Portfolio Feedback1.1%
  5. DevOps & SRE Navigation1.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. roadmap.sh
  2. Medium
  3. Boot.dev
  4. Wolfram
  5. draw.io

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