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Programming Horror: Sharing the WTFs

Share strange or straight-up awful code.

395k subscribers71 posts / mo in Sep 202655 authors / mosince 2012

r/programminghorror has 395k members (+4.8% over the last 12 months). It gets about 71 posts a month from 55 people. Top topics: Legacy Code Refactoring, Bad Code Examples and Programmer Profiles.

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Size and growth

How r/programminghorror has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+4.8%in 12 months · +0.7% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 2026395k
Growing395k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−36%vs Sep 2025 · −16% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202671
QuieterPeaked at 344 in Apr 2023
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/programminghorror

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Legacy Code Refactoring2.8%
  2. Bad Code Examples2.7%
  3. Programmer Profiles2.1%
  4. Python Programming1.4%
  5. Programming Beginners1.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Stack Overflow
  2. Microsoft
  3. Mozilla
  4. cppreference
  5. Python

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