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r/programming subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 6, 2026–Nov 6, 2026 (UTC).
From October 6, 2026 to November 6, 2026, 3,916 users on r/programming made 751 posts and 8,297 comments, or about 23 posts/day and 259 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 11.0 comments per post; 94.8% of posts and 2.9% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 43.3/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 8.0% of posts and 15.1% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 16:00 (1.8x avg), the most active day was Monday (1.3x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.97x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/programming
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 6 at 23:52 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
Each square is one hour, shown in UTC.
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