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Programming Humor

Programming Humor

130k subscribers168 posts / mo in Sep 2026118 authors / mosince 2012

r/programminghumor has 130k members (+23% over the last 12 months). It gets about 168 posts a month from 118 people. Top topics: Programmer Profiles, Programmer Humor and Coding Issues.

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Size and growth

How r/programminghumor has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+23%in 12 months · +3.4% in 3 months · +0.5% in 1 month
Oct 2026129k
Growing129k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−47%vs Sep 2025 · −9.4% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026168
QuieterPeaked at 665 in Mar 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/programminghumor

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Programmer Profiles2.9%
  2. Programmer Humor1.3%
  3. Coding Issues1.3%
  4. Developer Life1.2%
  5. Python Programming1.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. xkcd
  2. Ko-fi
  3. Wolfram
  4. Claude Code Docs
  5. Mozilla

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research